The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson

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LR18 - Guildhall Library - The Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers, The First Quarterage Book, 1588-1616 - MS 3051/1, St Mark's Day 1599

Quarterage payments (membership dues) by Jonson to the Tylers' and Bricklayers' Company   , 25 April 1599 , in the Quarterage Book for 1588-1616. Jonson has paid for two-and-a-half years at the usual rate of four pence per quarter. An earlier entry (L1596_10_GL) suggests that Jonson started by paying only two pence, or a half-rate, for his quarterage (Edmonds, 1974, 136), so the 'iiijd' at the beginning of the entry registers the transition to full fee-paying status. The Quarterage book is a folio-sized record of quarterage payments by guild members. It is unfoliated and arranged chronologically.
Eugene Giddens



St Markes Day 1599

iiijd Beniamyn Iohnson iijs iiijd

Bibliography
Edmond (1974), 135
Eccles (1988)
Kay (1995)

For a discussion of Jonson 's membership to this guild, see the 'Life and Times' introduction.