RepositoryCheshire Record Office
LevelPiece
ReferenceZAB/1/204
TitlePurchase of rye; fines; petitions
Date11 Oct 1585
DescriptionRichard Rathburne the elder, merchant, and Robert Amery, ironmonger, present their accounts for the sale of the rye - they had received £753 6 4, and paid over £717 15 9 to Meycocke, and the surplus to William Massy, merchant, one of the Treasurers; resolved that the profit be used for the relief of the poor, and that arrears from the previous year's poor rate be collected and added to it
Certain sums allowed by previous auditors as owing to Robert Brerewood, Alderman, Christopher Goodman and David Montforde, founder, are to be paid out of the revenues
(ZA/B/1/204v). George Calcot, merchant, who was elected a Councilman in the previous year, but never took his oath, to be disfranchised unless he pay the various fines imposed for his contempt, and submit himself to the further judgement of the Assembly
Robert Huntington, baker, whose premises were recently damaged by fire, to be permitted to organise a gathering in the City
The petitions for admission of John Smarley, apprentice of John Fisher, gentleman., deceased, [Richard] Powell, fletcher, and Robert Thornton, gentleman., deferred
The petition of Allen Waymale, lately employed on the building of the new conduit, for further payment for the work, deferred to the next Assembly
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