| Description | The £100, bequeathed by Sir Thomas White, Merchant Tailor and late Lord Mayor of London, to be loaned for ten years at a time to indigent young freemen of the City, is to go first to William Rogerson (at the request of his kinsman, John Rogers of London,), Richard Goose, Jeffry Smithe and Adam Jonson, all drapers; each man provides four sureties, and bonds and covenants are drawn.
Richard Fraunces, shoemaker, to be admitted, on the recommendation of Sir Francis Walsingham.
Richard Crofoote, keeper of the wheel of the conduit, not to be admitted.
Richard Peycocke, merchant, not to be admitted, in spite of the recommendation of Derby.
(ZA/B/1/198v). The auditors are to prepare the accounts without fail within the next ten days, under penalty of a fine of £10. |