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BYSMEREBYNCH. 107 are scheduled under the common title " burgess," there are specified in the list several females, two servants, one wife, one person taxed for himself and his daughter, and another for himself and his father-in-law. Portions of a roll for 1385 are defaced by damp, but the roll, which was in the mayoralty of John Fernhill, clearly embraces the same subjects as those immediately preceding it. In this account are credited receipts for 1000 stones, 2d., 500 stones, id., and other quantities from the "quarry of Tremayi ■ ;" and the sum of I2d. from William Tharrap for damages in Bodyer's quarry. The Keepers of the Northgate were John Choke and William Coulyng ; of the Southgate, Richard Grovyshend and John Wynd [the name Thomas Bilker being added in different ink] ; and of the Westgate, William Skynner and Richard Gatir. A small piece of parchment tied to this roll is intituled " Places for sitting [seats] in Bysmerebynch in the eighth year of the reign of Richard." There are twenty-one persons named on it : thus, Walter Galla, for three feet, 6d.; Richard Basly, for six feet, I2d., &c. Stephen Phylip is entered for a place in the west part of the door of the Schyr-Halle, I2d ; Thomas Robyn, for the north place, 8d. ; William Dawe, for the same place, 8d. Henry Body is charged for one little workshop, 5s.; Thomas Bilkere, for ditto, 5s., and two or three others are also charged for small shops there. The site of Bysmerebynch will be shewn hereafter to be now (1884) partly occupied by the houses of Messrs. Cater and Symons in Church Street. This scrap of parch- ment leads to an inference that the peculiar entry "mur: sutor," [shoemaker's wall], mentioned in former pages, related to the place known in 1385 as the Twicemerry (or Blessed Mary) Bench, corrupted in later centuries into " Besmary Bench."