. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. inn, belonging to thepriors of Noctons park, opposite the Rolls chapel. The revenueof these clerks is derived almost entirely from fees for copies ofproceedings in the court of Chancery ; nor has it been sufficientlyattended to, when complaints have been made of the extravaganceof these fees, that they were established rather as a mode of pay-ment for most of the business transacted in the office, than as arecompence for the copies themselves. The six head clerksreceive three-eighths of the proceeds, and the r
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. inn, belonging to thepriors of Noctons park, opposite the Rolls chapel. The revenueof these clerks is derived almost entirely from fees for copies ofproceedings in the court of Chancery ; nor has it been sufficientlyattended to, when complaints have been made of the extravaganceof these fees, that they were established rather as a mode of pay-ment for most of the business transacted in the office, than as arecompence for the copies themselves. The six head clerksreceive three-eighths of the proceeds, and the remaining five-eighths are divided among the under clerks. For the five yearspreceding 1811, the average amount of the three-eighths was3,288/., which, divided among the six clerks, yielded an income toeach of little more than 500/. CHAPTER XV. Historical Notices of the Borough of Soutkwark. The Borough of Southwark forms a considerable portion of thesuburbs of London, with which it is connected by the bridge sowell known by the name of London bridge. It is one of the VOL. IV. 2 F. HISTORY OF LONDON. 433 thirty other. The nine cost them between 5,000/. and 6,000/. andthe thirty about 25,000/. When the plans and elevations of tenof the thirty were laid before him, he enquired how long housesbuilt according to that estimate, would stand ? The two Biggs, sur-veyors, declared they would exceed the lease in duration, or forty-one years. Upon which sir Joseph, much to his honour, observed,* He would have them built as strong and as well as if they werehis own inheritance; and immediately added such means of stabilityas amounted to 350/, each house more than the estimate. Theannual rent of the above thirty-nine houses was 1,780/. ; the totalamount of the rent of the houses in the liberty of the rolls, ascharged to the poor rates in 1762, was 7,282/. In the year 1772, the house of commons appointed a committeeto examine into the state of the public records at the Rolls report
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