| Description | Thomas Knye chosen by ballot to be one of the almsmen of John Vernon in place of Thomas Harrison, cooper, deceased.
John Griffith, apothecary, elected Alderman in place of Richard Leicester, deceased.
(ZA/B/2/123). Daniel Cross, ironmonger, elected Councilman in place of the said John Griffith.
It was ordered that the Treasurers should pay Mr William Liptrott, Headschoolmaster, £18 to complete his salary of £40 due for the year ended March 25th last.
Certain freemen had complained that they had been over-assessed by virtue of an Assembly order of 18th September, 1657. It was therefore ordered that the Mayor, Edward Bradshaw, William Crompton and John Johnson, Aldermen and Justices of the Peace, or any two of them including the Mayor, should hear complaints and take order for the relief of complainants.
Edward Gray, bricklayer, petitioned for a lease for three lives and twenty-one years of a waste ground adjoining a building he had erected near the Gorsestacks. He would pay £20 fine and 20d yearly rent and, after the expiration of the term, would have another lease for the like term for £5 fine and 20d yearly rent, and so upon the expiration of every such lease it should be renewed to him and his heirs and assigns for ever. It was agreed that William Ince, Alderman and Justice of the Peace, the Treasurers and William Bristowe, Sheriff, should agree with the petitioner for a lease for three lives and twenty-one years. |