| Description | John Hulton, cordwainer, elected Alderman in the stead of Sir Richard Grosvenor, bart., deceased. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
John Gibbons, barber-chirurgeon, elected Councilman in the stead of John Hulton. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
Robert Ollerhead, feltmaker, chosen as one of Vernon's almsmen in the place of John Brookes, beerbrewer, deceased.
John Griffith, gentleman., petitioned that he should be paid £35: 15s: 8d. which he said he had disbursed for the City's use. It was agreed that £22: 4s: 8d., which he had disbursed in procuring a grant of the hospital lands of Little St. John's and which was beyond what he had received, should be paid to him. The Assembly were not satisfied that the remainder of £13: 10s: 0d., which he asked for endeavouring to abate assessments for the City, was fit to be allowed.
Thomas Bulkeley, cooper, desired to be admitted to the freedom. It was agreed to admit him, paying £5. It was ordered that, as soon as he could be admitted to the Company of Coopers, he should inhabit, keep a shop and follow his trade in the City.
William Oldham, gentleman., was admitted and was to pay 40s.
(ZA/B/2/151v) Philip Walley complained that he was disturbed in his enjoyment of a messuage, lands and tenements at Sutton, which he held from the City, by the children of John Chamberlaine, deceased, who had been tenants of the lands. He asked to be assured in the possession of the premises and to have a lease. It was ordered that he should have a lease for three lives or twenty-one years at the usual rent, and that he should pay £20 to the Treasurers, who would dispose of it as a gift to John Chamberlaine's children after they had vacated the property.
Ann Hough's petition was not granted.
George Smith petitioned for a lease of the dwelling house in which he dwelt. Since he had built the house he was granted a lease thereof for twenty-one years at a yearly rent of 2s. 6d.
It was ordered that the Linencloth market should be removed and should be kept in the Row on the South side of Watergate Street from the open place at the Red Anker downwards towards the Watergate.
The Treasurers were to see that a pavement was made beyond the Barrs to the cross pavement in the highway leading to Boughton, and were to lay out the necessary charges. |