| Description | Richard Brett, merchant, was elected Keeper and Clerk of the Common Hall in succession to Samson Shelley, deceased. It was provided, however, that widow Shelley should have the benefit of the place during the next Michaelmas Fair and should continue there until the following 15th October, when she should yield up her possession. She was to deliver the scales, weights, boards, chests and other things in her custody to the Treasurers. Brett, paying £10 to the Treasurers, would then be admitted to the place.
Richard Wright, underkeeper of the Northgate, petitioned that the prison of the Northgate might be rebuilt or so sufficiently repaired that it might be made tenable. William Crompton, Alderman, William Street, Alderman, and the Treasurers were desired to survey it and to compute the cost of repairing it. |