| Description | Jonathan Ridge, draper, was elected Alderman in place of Randle Holme the elder, deceased.
John Knowles, ironmonger, elected Councilman in place of the said Jonathan Ridge.
It was agreed that when Mr. Recorder Haworth next came to Chester the Mayor and Justices should move him concerning his abode in the City for the better performance of his office, and that he should give his answer within a month.
Mr. John Greenhalghe was dismissed from his post of Schoolmaster of the Free School owing to complaints of his misdemeanours.
Captain Jonathan Ridge and Robert Harrison were ordered to deliver to the Mayor all the arms, drums and colours in their custody.
John Joynson, shoemaker, who had lost two houses, a kiln, all the goods of his trade and many household goods by fire during the siege, and had a wife and six small children to maintain, petitioned for a grant in fee farm of some waste ground outside the Eastgate where The Globe Tavern formerly stood. He promised that he would secure a release from Evan Edwardes who claimed some interest in it under the City, and that he would erect a sufficient structure. It was agreed that he should have a fee-farm of half of the waste ground for the payment of thirty [ ]. |