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<strong>and</strong> trading from London in 1545 (Master Thos. Byam). 49 In 1547 a ship named ‘Clement <strong>of</strong> London’ (Master Humfrey Wilson)<br />
ran aground near Tynemouth while carrying ‘fine powder <strong>and</strong> other munitions for the King having mistaken a church steeple’,<br />
but in calm weather most <strong>of</strong> the cargo, <strong>and</strong> presumably the ship, was saved. 50 Another such, or possibly the same, was recorded<br />
trading in London in 1567 to 1568. 51<br />
It is probably this John Revell who is referred to in the following:<br />
‘Bill for stocking <strong>and</strong> repairing serpentines in the Edmond '' ' Bonaventure <strong>of</strong> Hull, amounting to 29s. 6d., paid by " me Thomas<br />
Clere," received by " me, John Revell.".’ 52<br />
In a pedigree from the Visitations <strong>of</strong> Hertfordshire, his son Roger is described as ‘Roger Revell, son to Roger, Surveyor to Q.<br />
Elizabeth’ when he married Mary Horsey <strong>of</strong> Diggeswell, 53 (Digswell, Hertfordshire), but there is no doubt that in fact his father<br />
was John.<br />
John Revell’s date <strong>of</strong> birth is not known but he was married by 1543. His son Roger seems to have been <strong>of</strong> age by 1553 at the<br />
latest, <strong>and</strong> thus John was probably born not later than ca 1513. John’s parents, where he was born <strong>and</strong> where he trained as a<br />
surveyor are unknown.<br />
There are several records that almost certainly relate to his pr<strong>of</strong>essional duties, as follows:<br />
1550–2 ‘Building a bridge at Blackfriars <strong>and</strong> at the Temple’, <strong>and</strong> ‘repairs <strong>of</strong> house at Reading’. 54<br />
January 30 th 1552 / 3 to July 6 th 1553 ‘Repairs <strong>and</strong> buildings at Str<strong>and</strong> Place’ 55<br />
October 24 th 1555 8 tenements lying next Holborne Cross <strong>and</strong> in Snowhill in the parish <strong>of</strong> St. Sepulchre, in the several tenures <strong>of</strong><br />
John Ryvell, John Rouver, Henry Palmer, Richard Henham, John Callowe, Simon Southwell, John Scarsdall, <strong>and</strong> Thomas<br />
Powell. 56<br />
In 1559 he reported on the ‘great sluice at Westminster’, 57 <strong>and</strong> in 1562 he drew or procured a design <strong>of</strong> a new spire for St Paul’s<br />
Cathedral. 58 It seems that his salary <strong>and</strong> expenses were probably the same as those awarded to his successor, namely ‘Wages<br />
<strong>and</strong> fee <strong>of</strong> towe shilling the day for his own selfe <strong>and</strong> 6d the day for his clerk were allowed. He was also to be allowed fouer<br />
shillings a day for diet boat hire <strong>and</strong> riding charge’. 59<br />
There is what appears to be a claim by his executors for outst<strong>and</strong>ing salary <strong>and</strong> expense for the period September 29 th 1561 to<br />
December 12 th 1563, as follows: ‘Works <strong>and</strong> buildings.: surveyors <strong>and</strong> paymasters.: J. Revell (per executrix <strong>and</strong> executors)’. 60<br />
Part <strong>of</strong> Bockingfold Manor in Kent ‘which lay in Yalding, Brenchley, Marden, <strong>and</strong> Horsmonden’ was held by a Roger Revell<br />
from 1564 to 1575, 61 presumably the property at Bockingfold that John Revell bequeathed to his son. It is likely therefore that<br />
it is this Roger Revell who in 1569 held the advowson <strong>of</strong> Cudham (Cowdham, Coldham, Codeham) church in Kent, 62 some 25<br />
miles from Bockingfold.<br />
48 Letters <strong>and</strong> papers foreign <strong>and</strong> domestic http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75792<br />
49 BHOL http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=80429&strquery=Clement<br />
50 The history <strong>of</strong> Newcastle <strong>and</strong> Gateshead, Volume 2 http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/richard-welford/history-<strong>of</strong>-newcastle-<strong>and</strong>gateshead--volume-2-ala/page-24-history-<strong>of</strong>-newcastle-<strong>and</strong>-gateshead--volume-2-ala.shtml<br />
51 The port <strong>and</strong> trade <strong>of</strong> early Elizabethan London: documents http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35952<br />
52 Letters <strong>and</strong> papers, foreign <strong>and</strong> domestic, <strong>of</strong> the ... Addenda to v.1 pt.1 no.1-1293 page 19<br />
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53 Visitations <strong>of</strong> Hertfordshire http://www.archive.org/stream/visitations<strong>of</strong>her22metc#page/114/mode/2up/search/revel<br />
54 E 351/3328 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C3529333<br />
55 E 351/3330 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C3529335<br />
56 Abstracts <strong>of</strong> Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City <strong>of</strong> London: Part 1 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65874<br />
57 Calendar <strong>of</strong> State papers http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarstatepa01unkngoog#page/n514/mode/1up/search/revel<br />
58 Vantage points in the seventeenth-century city http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Tbbrz6C-<br />
2DsJ:www.courtauld.ac.uk/people/stevensonchristine/stevenson08.pdf+%22john+revell%22+surveyor&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a<br />
59 King’s Master Masons<br />
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BGnyXTIrVFIC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=%22john+revell%22+surveyor&source=bl&ots=XSOZFOsLIX<br />
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page&q=%22john%20revell%22%20surveyor&f=false<br />
60 E 351/3201 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C3529206<br />
61 The History <strong>and</strong> Topographical Survey <strong>of</strong> the County <strong>of</strong> Kent: Volume 5 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62897<br />
62 The History <strong>and</strong> Topographical Survey <strong>of</strong> the County <strong>of</strong> Kent: Volume 2 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62801<br />
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