| Description | It was ordered that a House of Correction should be built where the former one stood. Alderman Harvie, Aldrman Johnson, Alderman Drinkewater, Treasurer Mynshull, Mr Anderton, Mr Heath, Mr William Wilson and Mr Thomas Ashton, or any three of them, were to be overseers of the work. It was ordered that the charge of erecting the house, amounting to about £200, should be disbursed from the monies belonging to the City in Treasurer Mynshull's hands, which he received from Mr Stanley of Alderley and other gentlemen of the county. The remainder of the money in Mr Minshull's hands was to be reserved for a stock on which to set the poor on work.
The Mayor had alleged that several sums had been due to him from the City for many years, and Aldermen Crompton and Johnson, Mr Parnell and Mr Greatbach were ordered to report on these accounts to the next Assembly.
Complaint was made that William Wilson and Richard Townesend, lately Sheriffs, had refused to pay the usual £4: 10s to the Recorder for his advice to them. They were ordered to pay this fee without delay.
Thomas Welsheman was appointed Overseer of the Highway leading from Handbridge as far as the City liberties extended in that direction.
(ZA/B/2/109v). William Garratt was to pay 30s. a year for arrears for the City land lying at the Justing Croft near Cowlane. If he wished to retain the land he must pay a yearly rent of 30s.
William Edwards, Alderman and Justice of the Peace, had been put to great charges in building the Globe Tavern upon land belonging to the City outside the Eastgate. In consideration of this and because the said messuage was burnt during the war, it was decided that he should have a fee farm of the ground for the yearly rent of 40s. and a fine of £3.
Robert Annyon was to give his answer to the Mayor, within a fortnight, whether he would rebuild on a parcel of ground in Cowlane. If he refused, the ground was to be granted, at the ancient rent, to John Williams, sawyer.
It was ordered that Thomas Sutton, the night bellman of the City, should henceforth receive the accustomed yearly fee of 26s: 8d.
It was agreed that Matthew Heath, son of Mr Thomas Heath, should have Robert Offley's scholarship at Oxford, instead of Samuel Bucke, who had lately declined it. |