| Description | Election of Robert Cowper, baker, and William Maninge, innkeeper, as Councilmen in place of the last year's Sheriffs.
The last year's Leevelookers are fined £5 each for failing to provide the customary wine at one of the four yearly feasts, and are also to find between them 20/- for the repair of the chimes of St. Peter's. Future Leevelookers are to pay 25/- a year for this purpose, and the Treasurers 6/8. Out of this money the parishioners of St. Peter's are to keep the clock in repair, and to pay the wages of a keeper; they are to make good any deficiencies out of their own pockets. Future Leevelookers are warned not to break any of the old customs of their office. (fine, 40/-).
(ZA/B/1/265v). The Sheriffs to collect the fines and make the usual payments. (£10, not £5, to the Treasurers). Note that the fee farm of the City is paid to officials of the Palatinate.
All persons whose accounts have been found deficient by the auditors (apparently those reappointed the previous year) are to pay what they owe under threat of imprisonment.
(ZA/B/1/266). John Whitby to be admitted paying £10.
Thomas Wright, who has not been Leevelooker, chosen Sheriff on the death of Edward Bennet, to pay a fine of £10.
Reaffirmed that persons who become Sheriff without having first been Leevelooker, must pay the full fine of £20.
The Treasuers are instructed to pay off the City's debts, especially those for which the City is being sued. |