Folios 244r–249r contain documents concerning property in Cheapside. Each page has the red-ink heading “Chepe”.

The testament of John Orewelle [20 August 1472]

In the name of God, Amen. On 20 August ad 1472 and in the twelfth year of the reign of King Edward IV, I, John Orewelle, citizen and goldsmith of the city of London, of sound mind and having a good healthy memory, praise be to the Highest, draw up, make, and ordain this present testament of mine as an indented document, containing my last will as to the disposal of all that messuage of mine with shops, houses, upper rooms, cellars, and other buildings belonging or pertaining to the same messuage as specified below in this manner: Firstly, I bequeath and commend my soul to almighty God my creator and redeemer, and to the blessed Virgin Mary his mother, and to all the saints. Item, I bequeath an annual quit-rent of 65s. 8d. of the legal money of England to Sir William Austyn and Master Thomas Halden, perpetual chaplains of the perpetual chantry called Sheryngton’s Chantry in the chapel situated near the north door of the cathedral church of St Paul, London, commonly called “Le Northdore”, this same annual quit-rent to be raised and received annually by those same chaplains and their successors as chaplains of the same chantry from all that messuage of mine with shops, houses, upper rooms, cellars, and other buildings belonging or pertaining to the same messuage situated and lying in the parish of St Vedast in West Cheap in the ward of Farringdon Within in the aforesaid city of London, and to be received in perpetuity in equal portions at four of the year terms, i.e. at the Feasts of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, Michaelmas, Christmas, and the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary.