| Description | Thomas Bird, tanner, petitioned for the loan of a portion of Sir Thomas White's money and this was granted.
The City butchers had lately kept stalls in the Hall or Flesh Shambles against the Cornmarket, although it was intended that Country butchers should sell their victuals there on market days. Therefore it was ordered that henceforth only Country butchers should have the stalls there, and that they should sell there from eight in the morning until three in the afternoon on market days. If, however, any of the stalls in the Flesh Shambles were not occupied, then the City butchers might have them.
It was ordered that Richard Bavand, blacksmith, should have a lease for twenty-one years of a parcel of waste land on the side of Hough greene for the yearly rent of 10s. He was to erect a sufficient building there within a year.
(ZA/B/2/153v) George Edge petitioned for a lease for three lives of certain lands in Tattenhall at the yearly rent of £18. The petition was referred to the Mayor, Alderman Ince and Alderman Willcock, trustees of the said lands for the uses declared in the will of Owen Jones. They were to let the lands for the utmost rent possible and to report to the next Assembly.
The draft of a petition intended to be preferred to the King about making the river navigable was read and unanimously approved. It was ordered that it should be ingrossed and preferred.
The petition of Nathan Jolly was not granted. It was considered that the new house beyond the Northgate, intended for a house of correction, was of little use to the City, at whose charge it had been built. John Barker, who inhabited it, did not provide such a store wherewith to set persons to work as by articles he was obliged to do. He suffered the house to be ruinous and was intending to remove from it. It was therefore ordered that he should be summoned before the Mayor, Recorder and some other of the Justices of the Peace, who should examine the matter. If he failed to give satisfaction he should be removed from his place. |