| Description | Related how the four shearmen brought in skilled weavers from Shrewsbury and elsewhere, and how they were forced to leave through the opposition of the Weavers of Chester. Therefore ordered, that as many foreign weavers as the Mayor and six of his bretheren shall consider necessary for the work of the shearmen, to be admitted into the freedom of the City.
Rival petitions are submitted from the Joiners, who as freemen desire to be incorporated as an independent Company, and the Wrights, Slaters and Sawyers, who assert that the Joiners are already part of their own Company. The Recorder to study their claims, and, if he consider the Joiners have a case, to draft the terms of incorporation for them, the grant to be engrossed and passed under the Common Seal. |