| Description | Appointment of Henry Hardware, John Cowper and Thomas Grene, Aldermen, as warders, and Edward Thompson and Edward Marten as collectors of the new stock for the poor, the latter to render an annual account.
No citizen to purchase wool from outside the City without the Mayor's licence; if weavers fail to produce goods of a sufficiently high standard, they are to be liable for damages at the discretion of the Mayor. Rates to be charged for spinning, weaving etc. are laid down.
(ZA/B/1/171) The Sheriffs are to render account on the Monday before election day; also Thomas Bellin, Alderman, and Edward Thompson are to account for the stock of the poor, and for money expended on building the House of Correction.
Leavelookers and auditors are appointed.
The offer of a young man to set up in the making of "jersey hose and buste mucador" [bustian? - a type of cotton cloth] on condition of receiving the freedom, to be accepted. |