Description | John Warton, blacksmith, was chosen one of Vernon's almsmen in the place of Cadwallader Edwards, deceased. The yearly exhibition of £5 bequeathed by Robert Offley was conferred upon Josiah Yong, student and undergraduate of Brasenose College, and son of Henry Yong, late of the City of Chester, ironmonger, deceased. Thomas Trafford, clerk, was to have a lease for a year of a piece of waste ground adjoining the wall of the Abbey court and of the cottage there for 2s: 6d rent. It was ordered that the persons named in an order of August 2nd last should bring in their plate within the next two weeks. The order of the last Assembly concerning payments by Mayors and Sheriffs who had not kept the Christmas watch was read and approved. |