| Description | Arthur Walley, mercer, elected Alderman in place of Thomas Aldersey, deceased.
John Lancaster, ironmonger, elected Councilman in place of Arthur Walley, and Thomas Fernihaugh, draper, in place of Thomas Heath, shoemaker.
Thomas Harrison, cooper, chosen by lot to be one of the Almsmen of John Vernon, in place of John Ollerhead, deceased.
It was ordered that the Treasurers should call for the £10 formerly lent to Thomas Upton, clerk and John Pemberton, clerk, deceased.
It was ordered that Councilmen who had not paid for their "Hantch" Feasts should each pay the Treasurers 13s: 4d. In future this sum should be paid immediately after election.
Robert Sparke was admitted to the freedom, paying merely the ordinary fees.
(ZA/B/2/121). Margaret Hind, widow, who had sustained great losses during the war, petitioned for a fee-farm of a new lease for three lives and twenty-one years of the house she held in Cowlane. It was ordered that, upon surrendering her lease, she should be granted a new one for three lives at a yearly rent decided by the Treasurers.
Upon considering the petition of Thomas Pulford, who held a tenement from the City in Sutton, it was ordered that, since the ruins of the buildings were very great, he should have £10 deducted from his rent to enable him to put them in repair.
The petition of the Company of Clothworkers and Weavers was referred for consideration to the Mayor and Justices of the Peace in the Pentice.
John Wynn, ironmonger, stated that in the mayoralty of William Edwards he had lent £10 for the use of the City, but that he only received 26s: 8d in repayment. It was ordered that he should be repaid. |