A LIST Of all the OFFICES AND PLACES Within the City of LONDON, TOGETHER With their respective Prices, as they are now Sold by the LORD-MAYOR and SHERIFFS of LONDON.

LONDON, Printed in the Year 1697.

A LIST of all the Offices and Places within the City of London, together with their respective Prices, as they are now Sold by the Lord-Mayor and Sheriffs of London.

 l.
1 AUditor of the City, his Sallary 50 l. per Ann. his Man's 12 l. 10 s. and for the Orphans 80 l. per Annum.00300
8 Attornies in the Sheriffs-Court, about 1500 l. each,12000
4 Attornies in the Mayor's-Court, and06000
1 Keeper of the Steel-Yard Beam06000
1 Bailiff of Southwark03000
1 Beadleship of the Court of Request, or Conscience01000
1 Barge-Master to the City00060
18 Bargemen, 35 l. each00630
1 Bricklayer of the City00200
2 Clerks of the Papers of the Comp­ters, 1000 l. each02000
4 Clerks Sitters in the Poultry, 1000 l. each04000
4 Clerks-Sitters in Woodstreet, 900 l. each03600
1 Clerk of the Bridge-House01250
1 Clerk of the City Works, and Keeper of the Reparation-Stuff00200
1 Clerk of the Court of Request, or Conscience01000
1 Common Serjeant02000
4 Common Pleaders, 1000 l. each04000
15 Coal-meeters, 1700 l. each25500
10 Corn-meeters, 1300 l. each13000
1 Common Huntsman01000
1 Common Cryer01000
1 Common Out-Roper00100
1 Comptroller of the Chamber01600
2 Carpenters of the Bridge-House, 200 l. each00400
1 Carpenter of the City00300
1 City Remembrancer00300
1 Clerk of the Chamber01500
1 City Glasier00200
1 City Stationer00120
1 City Smith00200
1 City Cryer for Things lost or found00050
1 Collector of the Duty on Coals for the Orphans00200
1 Collector of the Duty on Wines for the Orphans00270
1 City Founder00200
1 City Clerk in Chancery00010
1 Escheater and Coroner00400
1 Foreign-Taker00900
4 Fruit-meeters, each 50 l.00200
1 Garbler of Spices00976
1 Gauger of Wine and Oil00600
1 Keeper of Ludgate Prison01200
1 Keeper of Newgate Prison02500
2 Keepers of the Compters Prisons, each 2000 l.04000
1 Keeper of the Pest-House00060
1 Keeper of Guild-Hall, &c.01200
1 Keeper of the Green-Yard00100
2 Keepers of Moor-Fields, each 100 l.00200
1 Keeper of the Sessions-House00200
1 Mason of the Bridge-House00200
1 Mason of the City00200
2 Meal-Weighers, each 100 l.00200
1 Plaisterer to the City00300
1 Plaisterer to the Bridge-House00200
1 Pavier to the City00250
1 Pavier to the Bridge-House00250
1 Plummer to the City00500
1 Plummer to the Bridge-House00250
1 Painter to the City00300
1 Printer to the City00200
2 Prothonotaries of the Sheriffs Courts, 400 l. each00800
2 Porters of the Bridge-house, 100l. each00200
1 Purveyor of the Bridge-House00200
1 Sword-Bearer01200
2 Secondaries of the Compters, each 2500 l.05000
1 Sollicitor of the City01100
1 Steward of Southwark00250
1 Shotsman to the Bridge-House00200
36 Serjeants to the Sheriffs, 400 l. each14400
6 Serjeants to the Lord-Mayor, 600 l. each03600
2 Serjeants or Yeomen of the Markets and Channel01200
4 Salt-meeters, each 250 l.01000
1 Town-Clerk02000
The Printer of the Sessions-Paper to each Lord-Mayor00050
1 Upper Marshal of the City00800
1 Under Marshal00300
4 Viewers, 50 l. each00200
1 Water-Bailiff01500
36 Yeomen, 200 l. each07200
6 Yeomen, 600 l. each03600
6 Young Men in the Lord-Mayor's House, 600 l. each03600
2 Yeomen of the Chamber, 200 l. each00400
In all151586

There are several other Offices disposed of by the Mayor and Sheriffs, not here specified, amounting to 20000 l. more; to which may be added,

Profits which are incident to the Mayoralty of LONDON, Yearly.
 l.s.d.
Out of the Bridge-house, per Ann.00900000
From the Chamber00850608
Out of the Cocket-Office, about06000000
Out of the Scavage, at the Custom-House, Let for 1200 l. per Ann.01730608
The Gauger of Wine and Oil02000000
The Gauger of Fish00050000
Ten Coal-meeters, pay each 80 l. per Annum.08000000
The Weigher of Hay and Straw in Smithfield00100000
In lieu of the Profits of the Great Beam, and for presenting the Sheriffs at the Exchequer, out of the Chamber,00530608
For measuring of Linnen Cloth, &c.00500000
Out of the Rents of the Markets, which are Farm'd at 3600 l. per Annum,01000000
For Samples of Victuals, Fuel, Fish, Pease, &c. and making several Persons Free by Re­demption, about05000000
Perquisites and Presents from the Bakers and Fruiterers Compa­ny, Tiplers, &c. and other City Farmers, Leassees and Of­ficers, amounting to above07000000
Rent for Bartholomew Fair01000000
For Licensing the Sessions-Paper00600000
In all35270000

The Mayor hath above 2000 l. per Annum in­cident to the Mayoralty, and duly paid him out of the Chamber, &c. besides the Share of the Sale of these Offices, which is about four Fifths.

The Sheriffs have about 1000 l. per Annum likewise, and about one Fifth in the Share of the Sale of these Offices.

And tho' some of these Places have of late been sold for above 2500 l. yet in the Memory of many Citizens now living, no Place or Of­fice in the City was worth above 100 l. The Sellers of these Places, by conniving at the Buy­ers Exactions, have found their Account in the next Sale of the Office; so that the Purchase of these Offices are, many of them, above 20 times more than formerly.

So that here is a Possibility that a Lord-Mayor may get 20 or 30 Thousand Pounds in the Year of his Mayoralty.

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