| Description | Action to be taken again against the imposition of tonnage and poundage, by the Mayor and other citizens to be selected; their personal expenses they are to pay themselves, but Counsel's fee, etc., is to be paid out of a rate.
Memo. of an information laid against the Mayor in the Chester Exchequer (which is to be answered as a common cause), concerning methods of electing Aldermen and Councilmen. Discussed whether election was ever by the whole body of the citizens, but no one, not even the octogenarian Alderman William Leche, can remember such an election, (except in 1566, when William Ball, now Alderman, was elected by the wider vote.). William Aldersaie refuses to give his opinion. Also denied, that the present Mayor summons Assemblies without due warning, or that any person in authority has spoken against the jurisdiction of the Exchequer Court. Any suit forwarded to the Earl of Leicester or to any other person, against the activities of William Glaseor, Alderman and Vice-Chamberlain, during the Mayor's intended visit to London, to be pursued as a City's cause. |