| Description | Robert Townesend, ironmonger, elected Councilman in the stead of Richard Annion, deceased, and Peter Edwards, goldsmith, in the stead of Brian Minshull, deceased. They took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
Thomas Needham, esq., "a person of honor and [who] hath an estate in this Citty" was admitted to the freedom gratis.
William Thompson, clerk, was also admitted gratis.
Jonathan Cross, ironmonger, petitioned for a new lease of the messuage and tenement near "the milke stoopes" in Eastgate Street, which he then held by virtue of a lease for three lives (of which two were then in being), from the Mayor and Citizens to his father Thomas Crosse, deceased, at the improved rent of £10: 10s. p.a. He desired a new lease for his life and those of his wife Elizabeth and his daughter Ann. His request was deferred until he should bring sufficient testimony that the two lives were yet living.
A parcel of land adjoining the Cockpitt Hill, which had already been viewed by the Treasurers, was granted in fee-farm to William Hughes, bricklayer, for £12 fine and 5s. yearly rent.
George Watt, musician, petitioned on behalf of his Company, the City's Waits, that the City's livery should be bestowed upon them. It was ordered that the Treasurers should give cloth for livery gowns to George Watt and to two others of the ancient waits and that they should wear these in the City and not elsewhere. |