| Description | The place of Head Schoolmaster of the Free School was vacant and it had been agreed that Mr John Wickins should be appointed if convenient maintenance could be provided. (ZA/B/2/111). Since Mr Wickins suspected that the former allowance was not continued, it was ordered that he should be paid £60 a year by quarterly payments. If the allowances formerly allotted failed, this sum should be made up out of the Treasury, and the Treasurers should be reimbursed by an assessment.
Twelve members of the Assembly, including the Treasurers, with a quorum of seven, were nominated surveyors to view the City lands and make a perfect rental of the lands and of all encroachments before September 1st.
It was ordered that Mr John Anderson should have until the following August 1st to satisfy the City that the men of Washford, Ireland, were free from payment of customs within the City; otherwise he should pay the Leavelookers all customs due for goods of Richard Cheswis and Edward Wisemans which came to his custody.
(ZA/B/2/111v). Members of the Assembly who had failed to attend were to pay the penalties formerly fixed, unless they repaired to the Mayor and Justices in the Pentice within three days and showed sufficient excuse.
It was voted that John Ashton, blacksmith, should be admitted to the freedom for £6: 13s: 4d, since there was great need of workmen of his trade.
Thomas Hancocke, blacksmith, who had a letter of recommendation from the Major-General, was also admitted for the same sum.
It was ordered that John Barlow, the City's Mason, should have a lease for years or for three lives, at his choice, of a parcel of waste ground outside the Newgate formerly a garden plot held by William Gamull, Alderman, deceased, and measuring 32 yards by 10 yards. He was to pay 5s. yearly rent and to build on it within two years.
Thomas Pulford last year had taken a lease from the City of a tenement in Sutton at the yearly rent of £20 (ZA/B/2/112), and complained that he had sustained great losses by the overflowings of water upon these lands. Therefore £10 was allowed him towards his charges in repairing the buildings, fencing and ditching. This sum was to be taken from the money which should buy almsmen owns.
It was decided to grant the petition of Martha Sproston, widow of Robert Sproston, Alderman, for a new lease of a piece of void ground with two little shops in Northgate Street, near St. Peter's Church, and it was ordered that the premises should be viewed and valued before a new lease was made.
The petition of the Company of Linendrapers for the removal of the Linen Cloth Market was deferred until another time. |