| Description | The Mayor proposed that the Midsummer Show should be observed on Tuesday in Whitsun week, as many people would be attracted to the City who would spend money there. He thought it prejudicial to the Citizens to have the Show at Midsummer, in the Fair time, as it caused them to shut up or to leave their businesses (ZA/B/2/171v). It was therefore ordered that the Show should be observed on Tuesday in Whitsun week, that all persons who were to attend and perform the ceremonies and who absented themselves without reasonable excuse should forfeit 5s., and that every company that should fail to put forth their boy and horse in the usual manner should forfeit £5.
The Treasurers were ordered to cause the nuisance erected by Mr Randle Hulme in his new buildings in Bridge-street to be taken down. It had hindered the prospect from his neighbours' houses.
Benjamin Willcocke and Anne his wife stated in their petition that Mr Thomas Billington, William Garratt, John Kelley and others had encroached and built upon the City land which they rented. It was ordered that 5s. of their yearly rent should be abated, to be accounted for two years past and to continue until the encroachment should be redressed. |