RepositoryCheshire Record Office
LevelPiece
ReferenceZAB/1/277v
TitleElection; Butchers' petition; Eastgate Street lease
Date22 Jul 1599
DescriptionElection of Thomas Weston, glover, as Councilman in place of John Mylner.
For convenience's sake, as a general principle, John Robinson not to have a lease in reversion of a piece of ground known as the Newgate, formerly leased to one Edward Thompson. The former lease is to be inspected.
On the petition of the Butchers for restriction of the liberties formerly granted to foreign butchers, their liberties are confirmed.
David Allen, shoemaker, is ordered to accept a lease from the City of a tenement in Eastgate Street (demised in trust to the Corporation by the late Alderman Thomas Greene), or else to be dispossessed.
John Handfeild to be permitted to make and sell fustian for the ensuing year, (none of the weavers of the City making fustian themselves).
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