Description | William Wilme, innholder, elected Councilman in the stead of Edward Hulton, merchant, deceased. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration imposed by the Act for the well governing and regulating of Corporations, together with the usual oath. It was ordered that the assessment for raising £50 for defraying further charges concerning the charter should be assessed by the Mayor, Aldermen and Justices of the Peace or any three of them. John Caddicke, feltmaker, petitioned to have a grant in fee farm of a small parcel of ground at St. Olives Lane, adjoining his dwelling house there. He was already tenant of the ground and had built upon it. His request was not granted, but it was ordered that he should have a lease for three lives or twenty-one years, at his choice. 149. 22nd Sept., 1664. Sir Thomas Smith, bart., who was elected Alderman at an Assembly of 14th August, 1663, in place of Charles Walley, deceased, took the oaths and subscribed the declaration imposed by the Act. |