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‘Strangers’ or ‘aliens’ were a concern of the central government, and frequent efforts were made to identify and enumerate them.  The following entries are from the Publications of the Huguenot Society of London, vol.10, ed. R.E.G. Kirk and Ernest F. Kirk, parts 1 (1900), 2 (1902), 3 (1907), hereafter HSL1, HSL2, HSL3, supplemented by additional entries from lay subsidy rolls not included in Kirk & Kirk.  There is an alphabetised list of strangers; note that names found in that list may occur in more than one place in this list. 

1551 February 27.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/185/257; HSL1 pp.221-2, 231-3.]  Assessment for the third payment of the relief granted in 1549.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Burgus de Southwark.  St Saviour parish.  Strangers within the said parish. 

Paris Garden.  Strangers there. 

The Liberty of the Clink.  Strangers there, householders. 


1551 February 27.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/185/266; HSL1 pp.234-6, 245-6.]  Assessment for the fourth payment of the relief granted 4 November 1548.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

The Borough of Southwark.  St Saviour parish.  Strangers. 

Paris Garden. 

The Liberty of the Clink.  Strangers. 


1551 April 3.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/185/260; HSL3 pp.325.]  Certificate to the commissioners of the parish of St Saviour for levying the third payment of the relief granted in 1549.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

John Russell, one of the king's crossbow makers, having been assessed at £30, being the 'best value' of all his goods, Russell is to be spared payment unless the commissioners can show he is of better value.
[Signed:]  T. Darcy; John Gute (?)
[In margin:]  Johannis Russell Alienus ad solvendi xxxs


1559 July 1.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/185/286; HSL1 pp.260, 265-6.]  Assessment for the first payment of the subsidy granted 25 January 1559.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Burgus de Southwark.  St Saviour parish.  Strangers. 

The Liberty of the Clink.  Strangers. 

The Liberty of Paris Garden. 


1568 (no month).  Report by the lord mayor of London concerning strangers in the City and suburbs.  [BL, MS Lansdowne, vol.202; HSL3 pp.374‑5, 403].  A very large document.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

The answer and certificate of Sir Thomas Rowe, knight, mayor of the City of London, of the number of strangers as well within the City of London as in certain other Liberties and exempt jurisdictions adjoining nigh unto the same, both of men, women, and children of every nation, as well denizens as not denizens, with their names, surnames, and occupations, and what houses be pestered with greater number of strangers than hath of late time been accustomed, and to whom they pay their rents for the same, and how many of them do resort to any of the strangers’ cgyrcgesm according to certain instructions and letters from your honors to me for that purpose addressed, as nigh as I can collect the same by reason of incertain certificates as well by the officers of the said Liberties and exempt places, as of others, to me returned and certified.

The liberties and exempt jurisdictions nigh adjoining to the City of London, according to the order lately taken within the same City for the certificate of the names of all strangers within the same, &c. 

The Ward of Bridge Without.  St Saviour parish. 


The Liberty of the Clink. 



1569 February 16.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/185/294; HSL1 pp.400-1.]  Certificate, for the second payment of the subsidy granted 30 September 1566, that the following persons had no goods.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Burgus de Southwark.  St Saviour parish.  Strangers. 

The Clink


1571 May.  Report by the Lord Mayor of strangers residing in London and suburbs.  [State Papers Domestic, Elizabeth, vol.84; HSL1 pp.402, 464-5].  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

[To the Privy Council:]  May it please your honours to be advertised that according to the tenor of your honours' letters I have caused a true and perfect view and note to be taken of all the strangers that are presently abiding within the City of London and the Liberties and suburbs of the same, the particularity whereof, with the circumstances of the same, accordingly may appear unto your honours hereafter written. 

St Saviour. 

Sojourners:

The whole number of strangers within St Saviour parish — 87:
French —  —  — 2
Dutch —  —  — 81
Italians —  —  — 1
Germans —  —  —
Burgonian —  — 3 
Whereof  Denizens —  — 24
 Householders —  — 38
 Women and children —  — 24
 Men servants —  — 12
 Women servants —  — 1
 Sojourners —  — 12

1571 November 10.  Report by the lord mayor of London concerning strangers in the City and suburbs.  [State Papers Domestic, James I, vol.82; HSL2 pp.1, 112-13, 116-17].  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

[To the Privy Council:]  Pleaseth your honours, according to the tenor of your honorable letters to us the mayor and aldermen of London, lately directed for the inquisition and search of all strangers within this City and the liberties of the same, we on the tenth of this November performed the same accoringly, as by this book hereafter at large may appear unto your honours, viz: 

St Saviour. 

St Saviour parish. 


1571 December 18.  List of parishioners with no goods or chattels taxable for the first payment of the subsidy granted in 1571.  [TNA, E.179/185/304; HSL2 pp.139-40.]  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

St Saviour. 


1583?  Names of strangers in the City and suburbs.  [Cecil Manuscripts 210/14; HSL2 pp.314, 331-2.]  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

St Saviour in Southwark.


1585 (no month).  From the Dutch Church Registers of Members, Book 6.  [HSL2 p.378.]  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

In the parish of St Mary Overies


1586?  Names of 'Low Countrymen' in London.  [State Papers Domestic, Elizabeth, vol.195 no.81; HSL2 p.402].  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

[Interspersed among those listed are the following, not necessarily all in St Saviour:]


1588 ?September.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/185/324A; HSL2 p.409.]  Certificate, by the commissioners for levying the first payment of the subsidy granted in 1586, that the following persons within the Borough of Southwark were either dead, departed, gone, or had no goods therein.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

St Saviour parish.  Strangers.

The Clink.  Strangers.


1589 May 1.  Lay Subsidy, Additional.  [TNA, E.179/257/20; HSL2 pp.415-16.]  Certificate, for the second payment of the subsidy granted 23 March 1586, that the following persons had no goods, lands, or tenements therein.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

St Saviour parish.

The Clink.


1592 May 9.  Lay Subsidy.  [TNA, E.179/185/334A]  Certificate, for the first payment of the subsidy granted 17 March 1589, that the following persons have died or departed, the collectors being unable to collect the sums assessed.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

The Clink.


1593 August 21.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/349; HSL2 pp.445, 448, 450.]  Assessment for the payment of the first subsidy granted 19 February 1593.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Borough of Southwark.  St Saviour.  Strangers.

Polls


The Clink.  Strangers.

Polls



1594 June 7.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/356; HSL2 pp.454.]  Certificate, for the payment of the first subsidy granted 1593, that the following persons had neither goods, lands, nor tenements. 

St Saviour parish.  Strangers in the same parish.

The Clink.  Stranger there.


1594 August 7.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/362; HSL2 pp.455, 458-9.]  Assessment for the payment of the second subsidy granted 19 February 1593. 

St Saviour parish.  Strangers.

The Clink.  Strangers.


1594 October 31.  From the Dutch Church Registers of Members, Book 8, no.2.  [HSL2 pp.462, 473-4.]  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

A catalogue of all those that are of the Dutch Church in London, written the last of October 1594. 

Short Southwark

In Long Southwark


1598 August 31.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/370; HSL3 p.4.]  Assessment for the payment of the first subsidy levied by Parliament in 1597.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

The Borough of Southwark.  St Saviour parish.  Strangers.

The Liberty of the Clink.  Strangers.

Paris Garden.


1599 August 29.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/375A; HSL3 p.39.]  Assessment for the payment of the second subsidy levied by Parliament in 1597.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Borough of Southwark.  St Saviour parish.  Strangers.

The Liberty of the Clink.  Strangers.

Paris Garden.


1600 August 27.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/377; HSL3 pp.74, 77-9.]  Assessment for the payment of the third subsidy levied by Parliament in 1597.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Borough of Southwark.  St Saviour parish.  Strangers.

The Liberty of the Clink.  Strangers.

The Liberty of Paris Garden.


1617 (no month).  From the Dutch Church Registers, Book 10.  [HSL3 pp.152,168,172.]  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Book 10, number 17: under the heading "Merchants [who are] members of the Dutch congregation in London, strangers by birth".  Among those listed is:
   Bankside:

Book 10, number 47: under the heading "The names of handicraftmen strangers, members of the Dutch congregation in London, with their wives, children, servants, and their continuance here, as near as could be gathered".  Among those listed are:
   St Mary Overs:

Book 10, number 47: under the heading "Free denizens.  The names of handicraftmen, members of the Dutch congregation in London, with their wives, children, and servants".  Among those listed are:
   St Mary Overs:


1618 September 16.  Report by the Constables of St Saviour of strangers residing in Boroughside.  [State Papers Domestic, James I, vol.99 no.23 (TNA, SP14/99 fo.144); HSL3 pp.218-9].  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

A note of the names of the strangers remaining and dwelling in the parish of St Saviour within the borough of Southwark taken the 16th day of September Anno Domini 1618 by the constables and others of the same parish whose names are underwritten as followeth viz:

John Wattes
John Marshall
Nicholas Wyband, Constable


1618 September 18.  Report by the Constables of the Liberty of the Clink of strangers residing therein.  [State Papers Domestic, James I, vol.99 no.44 (TNA, SP14/99 fo.144); HSL3 pp.227-8].  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

By virtue of a warrant to us directed we have made search and enquiry within the Liberty of the Clink what strangers are inhabiting and lodging within the same Liberty, and do find these persons hereunder named, viz:


Roger Cole
The mark of William X Benfeild
Edward Griffin
William Kenten
Michael M F Francis
Philip Filcockes

[And on a separate leaf:]



1618 September 18.  Report by the Constables of the Liberty of the Clink of strangers residing therein.  [State Papers Domestic, James I, vol.99 no.45 (TNA, SP14/99 fo.114); HSL3 p.229].  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Return, by the constables of the Parish Garden, of the strangers resident within their district.


The mark of X me John Keylock
William George
Henry X Renovells
William Wells
    of Paris Garden Liberty

1621/2 February 15.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/407; HSL3 pp.253-4.]  Assessment for the second payment of the second subsidy levied by Parliament in 1620.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Villa et Burgus de Southwark.  St Saviour parish
  The Close

  Polls

  Saints Alley

 Clink Liberty.  Strangers

  Paris Garden Liberty


After 1622 December 12.  Lay Subsidy, various counties.  [TNA, E.179/266/2]  Assessment for various payments towards the two subsidies granted to James I in 1621.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Borough of Southwark.  St Saviour Parish.  Poll money.


1624 June 24.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/430; HSL3 pp.266-7.]  Assessment for the payment of the first subsidy levied by Parliament in 1624.  Much worn and illegible. The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Borough of Southwark.  St Saviour parish.  Strangers.

  Poll money

 Clink Liberty.  [Two names here, faded]

1625 before March 30.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/425; HSL3 pp.274.]  Assessment for the payment of the third subsidy levied by Parliament in 1624.  Much torn and defaced.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Burgus de Southwark.  St Saviour parish.  Strangers in the Close.

Strangers, per poll


1628 September 3.  Lay Subsidy, Surrey.  [TNA, E.179/186/432.]  Assessment for the payment of the third subsidy levied by Parliament in 1628.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Borough of Southwark.  St Saviour Parish.  Poll money.

Clink Liberty.  Poll money.


1628 November 29.  Lay Subsidy, Southwark.  [TNA, E.179/186/435.]  Assessment for the payment of the fourth of five subsidies levied by Parliament in 1628.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

Borough of Southwark.  St Saviour Parish.  Poll money.

Clink Liberty.  Poll money. 

Paris Garden, poll money


1641 May 20.  Lay Subsidy, St Saviour.  [TNA, E.179/186/452.]  Assessment for the payment of the final two of the four subsidies levied by parliament in 1640.  The text is modernised except for surnames. 

St Saviour Parish.  Poll money.