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ZA - City of Chester Assembly - 1407-1857
- B - Assembly Minute Books - 1539-1835
  - 1 - Assembly Book - 15th century-1624

Repository	Cheshire Record Office
Level	Piece
Reference	ZAB/1/162v-3
Title	Whitsun plays; admissions; bequest for relief of poor
Date	May 30-Sep 28 [?1575]
Description	May 30th. The Whitsun plays to be performed as usual at midsummer. Sept. 28th. Thomas Morgan, cook, servant to the Mayor, to be admitted gratis. (ZA/B/1/163). The two hundred marks bequeathed to the City by Ralf Worseley Esq., deceased, to be stored in the Treasury of the City, until provision can be made for the setting of poor to work, in accordance with the terms of the bequest. Note of the receipt of the money by the Treasurers, Richard Bavand and William Wall, on Sept. 29th.
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