| Description | Fines for absence were imposed as at the previous Assembly.
Charles Farrington petitioned for a grant in fee farm of the messuage in Northgate Street which Richard Bavand, Alderman, bequeathed to the Mayor and Citizens. The yearly rent of this messuage was 20s, and Bavand had willed that this should for ever be paid to the Mayor who should yearly distribute it to twenty poor persons on Good Friday. The petitioner had bought the White Bull, adjoining the said messuage, and he had pulled it down in order to re-build it. It was ordered that (ZA/B/2/129v) the said cottage and garden should be granted to Charles Farrington and his heirs in fee farm, for the yearly rent of 20s. and a fine of £20 to be paid to the Treasurers.
William Wilson, tanner, related that he owned a parcel of ground without the Northgate, near the quarry, upon which several bays of building stood until they were burnt down in the siege. He had since erected six bays of building there, but now Mr William Bristow had uncovered a corner of rock adjoining his building and intended to cut this rock down. This action would prevent the repair of part of his building and would prejudice the City. He petitioned that Mr Bristow might be enjoined to cease working on the ground. An order to this effect was made.
In future no petitions should be read in the Assembly unless they had been drawn or engrossed by the Clerk of the Pentice Office and had been presented by him to the Mayor for his approval before the sitting of the house. |