| Description | Containing its resolutions on the dispute between the City and the Palatinate Exchequer Court. The first charter of Queen Elizabeth (on a clause of which the City is basing its claim to independence) is to be surrendered; (ZA/B/1/144v) the Exchequer is not to exceed its jurisdiction (as recently laid down); William Glaseor and William Aldersay, Aldermen, and John Aldersay, merchant, are to be readmitted into the freedom; (ZA/B/1/145) and the orders for their disfranchisement are to be deleted; the old oath, taken on admission, is to be restored (the new one omitting certain words of fidelity to the Earl and Earldom of Chester); all fines etc. imposed on the Mayor and/or Sheriffs in the Exchequer Court, during the dispute, and all private actions arising out of it, are to be forgiven and forgotten; the Newgate (the closing of which is inconvenient to officials of the Exchequer Court) is to be open during the day and shut at night; the foregoing orders are to be publicly proclaimed at Chester and entered among the records of the City. |