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Plotting the Past, Planning
the Future - The Life of a Plot
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The later Middle Ages: an inn... Some of the early leases granted
by the Priory can still be seen in the Cathedral Library. In the 14th
century the Priory tenants were John and Rose Cassh. They were vintners,
selling wine, but they also kept an ale house. In 1354 they settled
one of the shops on their son Walter. It was described as being in
Huxter Street between the tenement of Thomas Robyns of Salwarpe and
the shop that John and Rose used as an 'Alechambre', extending
from the street to the 'hall'of John and Rose. |
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| The lease of 1354, now in the Cathedral Library. | ||||
| In 1464, a hundred years after John and Rose lived in the house, another vintner, Robert Berton, leased it from the Priory. By this time the name of the street had been changed to Cooken Street, the street of the cooks, and the buildings themselves had been altered. Stone houses were no longer fashionable and two of the shops facing the High Street had been rebuilt in timber over the stone basements. The heavy posts and curved braces of this fifteenth century rebuilding were discovered when the buildings on the site were demolished in 1960. | ||||
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At some time, perhaps during the 13th century, one of the tenants had given the rent from the corner shop, a tiny property which measured about 12 x 15 feet, to the upkeep of a priest at St. Helen's church. This meant that, when the other shops were rebuilt on a grander scale the corner shop remained a tiny 'cottage'. |
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