| Description | William Ince, merchant, elected Councilman in the stead of Richard Bennett, shoemaker, deceased. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
Thomas Yong, beerbrewer, was granted a portion of Sir Thomas White's money, viz. a loan of £25 interest free for ten years.
Ann Lea, widow, related that Robert Harvey, Alderman, Thomas Billington, William Garrett and John Kelley had encroached upon certain lands and tenements demised to her late husband by the City. She desired either to be restored to the possession of the profits of the premises or else to have her rent abated. Her petition was referred to the Mayor, the Recorder, and five of the Aldermen.
John Sparke, gentleman, and William Harvie, Lieutenant and Ensign of the Trained band of the City, desired to have allowances of £5 and 50s. respectively paid to them by the City yearly from October 1660 to the following October, since the Captain of the band had £10 yearly for the same period. Their petition was not granted. It was decided that the Captain's allowance should be continued.
Information was given that divers of the inhabitants had refused to pay their assessment for the royal aid granted by Parliament, and had threatened legal proceedings if the Collectors should distrain upon them. (ZA/B/2/152v) It was therefore ordered that the Collectors should be kept harmless and indemnified concerning the collection of the assessment, and that any suit which arose should be a City's cause. |