One more Carpenter found living in the Fleetstreet area, with all the others in the 1300s. The exact area is Holebourne just above Fleetstreet itself. This William must be the William Carpenter, designated alternately as a spicer and a pepperer. William was a wealthy merchant who financed the crown and is thought to be the father of Rodger Carpenter discussed previously. This general area of London must have a overall designation, though I have yet to discover it. So many Carpenters have been found to live there from the late 1200s to 1400, in documents that are ungenerous in specifics, that the conclusion must be that all the London Carpenters lived in the area, which was a kind of Carpenter village. This is from CALENDAR OF LETTER-BOOKS, Letter-Book B, p. 169. The document shows that William was under obligation to pay a debt. It by no means shows that William was impoverished. “Saturday the eve of Palm Sunday [27 March], 34 Edward I. [a.d. 1306}, came William le Charpenter de Holebourne and William le Barber de Cordwanerstrete before John le Blound, Mayor, John de Wengrave, and Richard Poterel, the Chamberlain, and acknowledged themselves jointly and severally indebted to John de Wyndessore de Phelippeslane in the sum of 10s.; to be paid at the Feast of Pentecost, and unless, &c.” Bruce Carpenter