| Description | Ralph Hocknill, ironmonger, elected Councilman in the stead of Thomas Wright, deceased. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
It was ordered that henceforth all butchers should have their swine killed outside the walls, on pain of 12d. for every offence.
It was ordered that William Willme and Thomas Billington, lately Sheriffs, should pay to the present Sheriffs the monies which they ought to have received from the collectors of the assessment money for the repairs of the Eastgate and the cleansing and repair of the streets and highways. The remainder of this assessment was to be levied. The auditors were to audit the Treasurers' accounts before the following January 3rd, and were to report to the next Assembly.
By reason of "the insufficiency and unteneablenes" of the Northgate it was ordered that the prisoners should be removed to the Eastgate, which should be the City Gaol until further order.
George Wilson, gentleman, petitioned for a lease of the salt grass for three lives and twenty-one years at the yearly rent of 30s. The previous order of Assembly for granting him a fee-farm was, therefore, revoked, and it was ordered that the Treasurers should view the property and report on its extent and value to the next Assembly.
William Ince, Alderman, petitioned that he might have a new lease for three lives of a cottage and building containing four bays on the waste ground in Handbridge. He would surrender the lease for ninety-nine years, if three lives so long lived, whereof one life was yet in being, made by the Corporation to George Chamberlaine, since deceased, and Sarah his wife, since married to the petitioner. It was ordered that he should have a lease for three lives for 10s. fine and the yearly rent of 8s.
(ZA/B/2/173). George Mainwaring, merchant, petitioned for a lease for three lives and twenty-one years of the New Tower from the gate before the tower Northwards. William Crompton, Richard Taylor and Robert Morrey, Aldermen and Justices, were requested to view the ground and to report to the next Assembly.
The petition of Thomas Worrall, clerk, was read and laid aside.
The Treasurers were granted liberty to appoint a place where a gate should be set to pass into Mr Weston's ground at the Gorstacks, to avoid going over the ground granted by the City to William Hughes. |