| Description | It was ordered that sixty persons should be provided within the City to be sent to the House of Correction and there set to work.
The Treasurers were ordered to perfect the City's rental and to add all rents due to the City and not specified in the rental.
It was ordered that in future the Keeper of the Common Hall of Pleas and the Keeper of the Northgate should bear all the charges for the respective repairs of the Common Hall and the Northgate, and that the glazeing and slateing of both buildings should be repaired. John Anderson, Alderman, and William Wilson were appointed to view the decays and to certify the same to the next Assembly.
It was ordered that all the streets, lanes and waste places should be cleansed by carrying away the dirt, and that in each ward the Justices should cause the Constables to see this performed. Former orders prohibiting the keeping of swine were to be put into execution.
(ZA/B/2/126). Within each ward the Constables were to bring the names of the inmates [lodgers] to their Aldermen every month.
William Crompton and William Wright, Aldermen, and the Treasurers were ordered to view the ground before Captain Griffith's house in Bridge Street and, if they saw fit, to compound with him for the payment of a rent for a porch to be erected in the street there.
It was ordered that a book should be provided and kept in the Pentice Office for entering goods imported into the City as had been customary.
Complaint had been made that the bridge over the Dee was decayed. Therefore William Bristow and Hugh Harvy were appointed to oversee the repairs and the Treasurers were ordered to pay for the work out of the City stock.
An assessment had been made for defraying necessary charges of the City and it was now ordered that the part which remained unpaid should be collected by George Bagott, Swordbearer, and by such other persons as the Mayor should appoint, by distress if necessary.
Randle Hulme, son of Randle Hulme, Alderman and Justice of the Peace, deceased, had petitioned for satisfaction of £80 supposed to be due from the City to his father for his disbursements made while he was Treasurer. It was ordered that the accounts of Randle Hulme, deceased, should be audited by nine members of the Assembly or any three of them.
(ZA/B/2/126v). George Bulkeley, gentleman, was admitted to the freedom for £5.
Robert Ensdale, clothworker, chosen by ballot to be one of Vernon's almsmen, in the place of Roger Hancocke, taylor, deceased. |