Description | Election of John Fraunces, tanner, and Edward Bennet, shoemaker, as Councilmen in place of the Sheriffs. Alderman and constables in every ward to report monthly to the Mayor on rogues and vagabonds, (fine, 3/4); the statute against rogues and vagabonds to be put in execution. Deferred, whether to deflect some of the water running down St. John's and Dee Lanes, to run down Fleshmongers' Lane instead. Last year's auditors are reappointed. Thomas Orton, yeoman, married to Alice Evans, a freewoman, to be admitted paying 5 marks. The petitions for admission deferred, of Richard Booth, wright, servant to Mr Beverly and of Richard Treneele, paver (who offers to maintain the City's paving). The petition deferred, of Roger James, lately prisoner at the Northgate, against Yonge for charging 12d. for his irons. |