| Description | William Allen, beerbrewer, elected Councilman in the stead of William Hand, deceased; Robert Caddick elected Alderman in the stead of John Hulton, deceased; and William Bennett, shoemaker, elected Councilman in the stead of Robert Caddick. They took their oaths and subscribed the declaration.
Robert Caddick, Alderman, was elected and sworn one of the Coroners of the City in the stead of John Hulton, Alderman, late Coroner, deceased.
It was ordered that £98: 7s: 9d should be paid to Henry Lloyd, Alderman, late Treasurer.
It was ordered that £42: 10s formerly advanced by Thomas Simpson, Alderman, the present Mayor, at the instance of several of the Commissioners of the late royal aid and additional supply, towards payment of the arrears of the said aids charged upon the City, should be paid to him next after the payment of Henry Lloyd's debt.
William Ince and Peter Edwards, Sheriffs, were to examine what charges the present Mayor and Mr Owen Ellis sustained, as Sheriffs, in conveying certain felons from Chester City Gaol to Glamorganshire, by virtue of a warrant from one of the Justices of the King's Bench.
It was put to the question whether the Calves' Head feast was a feast to be maintained within the City by ancient custom and usage or merely at the will of the Sheriffs and Leavelookers for the time being. It was unanimously declared that the feast was by ancient custom.
It was asked whether John Maddock, Alderman, should be excused from giving the plate due upon his election to office to recompense him for the monies he had expended in suing for his Quietus est as head Collector of the Subsidy. It was decided that he should not be excused; and it was ordered that he and all others named in a former order on this subject, together with those who had been elected to office since then and who had not brought in their plate, should forthwith do so.
(ZA/B/2/178) An order lately made for fining all who had been Mayors and Sheriffs since the Restoration and who had not kept the Christmas watch was to continue in force. The fines must be paid before Christmas.
Thomas Finlow, glover, chosen one of Vernon's almsmen in the place of Richard Coxe, deceased.
Kendrick Eaton, esq., and Ralph Davenport, gentleman, executors of the will of John Ratcliffe, esq., deceased, petitioned on behalf of the five children of Ratcliffe. In the service of the City, Ratcliffe had spent a great part of his time and estate, and had been forced to contract several considerable debts. After these had been met his estate would not be a competent provision for the children. It was ordered that £50 should be paid to the executors for the use of the children.
Henry Pemberton, ropemaker, petitioned for a lease for three lives of a waste piece of ground near the Pudding Hill on which he intended to erect one bay of building for a store house for cables and ropes. The Treasurers were to view the ground and to report to the next Assembly whether this might be granted.
Mary Cappur, widow, petitioned that she might be restored to the possession of a parcel of land lying towards Hoole Rake near Cockfight Hill. She was ordered to produce her deeds and to make out her title before the Mayor and the Recorder in the Pentice.
Nathaniel Cooke preferred a petition to the same effect as that which he presented on 17th December, 1672 (see f. 175v). He stated that since then he had been refused admission to the Merchant Drapers at a public meeting of the Company. The Assembly again recommended him to the Company as a fit person to be admitted.
Peter Leicester, who had been elected a freeman in Alderman Hudson's mayoralty, asked for an abatement of the sum of £50 which he had been ordered to pay. It was ordered that he should pay this sum within a week or else lose all benefit from the order declaring him elected. |