| Description | John Yong, mercer, elected Alderman in the stead of Edward Kinsey, deceased. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
William Wilson the younger, tanner, elected Councilman in the stead of Richard Meacocke, deceased, and Thomas Baker, innholder, in the stead of John Yong. They took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
Leavelookers who had not accounted to the Murengers were to do so within two weeks.
All Mayors and Sheriffs who had been Receivers of the monies bequeathed to the City by Owen Jones should, within three weeks, present accounts of their receipts and disbursements to the present Mayor and Sheriffs.
William Harvey and Robert Caddicke, late Sheriffs, should, within one week of Mr Recorder's return to the City, before the Mayor, Recorder and Justices, prove the payment of £11: 2s: 8d which they pretended they had paid to Mr Thomas Futter for fees. At the same time they were to bring in their account of the payment of the City's fee-farm rent.
The Sheriffs and Treasurers had reported that the granting of John Anderson's petition for ground near Flookersbrook on which to get clay for marl would be very prejudicial to the King's highway. Moreover, Thomas Wade, gardener, in a petition, stated that the pit already made by Anderson was a great annoyance to the King's highway and was very dangerous to travellers. It was therefore ordered that Anderson should cease getting clay, that he should have no more ground for the purpose and that he should fill up the pit already made.
An enclosure on the City waste at Flookersbrook, made by Thomas Carter without the consent of the City, was to be thrown down by the Treasurers.
The Sheriffs reported that they had viewed that part of Pigglane without the Barrs which William Wilson, Alderman, petitioned to have, and that they conceived it to be of little or no use to the City as it was. (ZA/B/2/168) It was therefore conceded that Wilson might have a lease for three lives or twenty-one years, at a yearly rent of 2s: 6d.
Gabriel Barkley and Arthur Crew were admitted to the freedom each paying 40s.
Edward Bridge, innholder, was to have a lease for three lives and twenty-one years of a parcel of waste ground at the further end of his house at the further end of Dee bridge. He was to pay 2s. yearly rent and he was to make stairs down to the river and to keep them in repair.
It was agreed that the Mayor, Recorder and Justices of the Peace or the greater number of them, including the Recorder, should examine the allegations of Benjamin Willcocke and Ann his wife concerning encroachments on the City land which they rented, and should determine the matter.
John Bradshaw, cutler, was granted £25 of Sir Thomas White's monies, formerly granted to Thomas Watt, clothworker, for a term already expired. |