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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/1/169v
Title	Workhouse; the Corn Market House
Date	July 1st [?1576]
Description	The new workhouse for the poor is to be erected at the Quarry outside the Northgate, the present tenant, Randle Leche, merchant, (on a sixty year lease) having been bought out for £20 and provided with land at the Gorsestacks. Thomas Booth, wright, is to be employed to move the Corn Market House to its new site.
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