| Description | May 6th. Election of Henry Hardware as Alderman in place of Edward Hamner.
Peter Drinkwater, ironmonger, to be free, paying as an apprentice.
Suggested that some reward [bribery?] be given to the Commissioners for the Maintenance of the Statute of Caps, "for the quiet of thinhabitants."
Jasper Gillam to be retained at an annual salary of 46/8, to remove all inmates and beggars weekly from the City.
May 13th. Appointment of Richard Woodcock as Crier, in place of Thomas Richardson, deceased.
Humfrey Dale, servant to the late Sir Lawrence Smith, and now to the present Mayor (his son), to be admitted gratis.
Roger Bryne, freeman for seventy years, to be permitted to have a gathering, and John Wright, tanner, the like.
The Mayor to review the hundred soldiers on the Roodee in a fortnight's time, and meanwhile every Alderman to prepare lists of the numbers of his men, their arms, and by whom the arms to be supplied. |