| Description | Peter Goose elected one of Vernon's almsmen in place of Edward Fisher, deceased.
Randle Oulton, beerbrewer, elected Councilman in the place of William Jones, linendraper, deceased.
William Heywood, shoemaker, elected Councilman in the place of the said Peter Goose.
Richard Vaughan, clerk, elected Chief School-master of the Free School of the City, to take up the position on May 1st.
John Jollie elected usher of the said school.
John Wildinge, yeoman of the Pentice, stated that he had provided wine and other accommodation for the Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Sheriff peers and Leavelookers every Sabbath day in the Pentice, according to ancient custom. Yet many of these persons refused to pay him his allowance fixed by Assembly order. Furthermore he alleged that during twenty-two nights he had burnt two measures of charcoal every night in the Pentice. It was ordered that the custom of providing hospitality should continue and that those members of the Assembly appointed to pay the petitioner quarterly for this, should do so. The Treasurers were to pay him 40s. for his charcoal.
Mr. Ralph Davenport, Clerk of the Pentice, (ZA/B/2/107v), and Mr. Thomas Wright were instructed to inquire concerning the City's rents and all concealments and encroachments, to make a perfect rental, collect the rents and pay them over to the Treasurers. They should take for their pains 12d in every pound collected and the Assembly would pay them further according to their industry.
It was ordered that Michael Hunt, cutler, should have a lease for three lives, whom he should nominate, and for twenty-one years in reversion after the three lives, of a parcel of waste in Handbridge for the yearly rent of 2s: 6d.
Richard Thomason, beerbrewer, was granted liberty to erect a barn upon part of the City waste at Boughton, close to a house of Edward Hinckes, and the Treasurers were to decide the rent.
It was decided that the building which Edward Gray, bricklayer, had erected upon part of the City waste at Cowlane and should be permitted to stand. The Treasurers, assisted by three Aldermen, were to measure him out a garden adjoining, and to decide the rent.
It was ordered that the little cottage which Thomas Handcocke had built on the City land in Cowlane should be entered in the City rental and his rent fixed by the Treasurers.
It was further ordered that Hugh Harvie, glover, should appear before the Mayor and his brethren within a month to show cause why he had made so large an inclosure upon the City lands at Hough Green; otherwise the inclosure should be laid open to the Common. |