| Description | William Harvey, innholder, elected Alderman in the stead of Richard Taylor, deceased, and John Taylor, draper, elected Councilman in the stead of William Harvey. They took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
[Two lines of writing crossed out here]. Expunged, see f.179v
It was ordered that old plate and other City plate which was or should be decayed and unfit for use should be sold and the money put into the Treasury, in the Chest under six keys.
The Treasurers were to pay Mr Sheriff Edwards £6: 2s: 6d which remained due to him for plate which he had provided for the races at Shrovetide and on St. George's day in the mayoralty of Alderman Hudson.
(ZA/B/2/179) John Brett, gentleman, who had been an inhabitant of the City for twenty-five years, was admitted to the freedom gratis.
John Delamaine was admitted, paying £10.
The petition of Henry Standish, brazier, desiring to be made a freeman was read, together with the petition of the Company of Smiths, Cutlers, Pewterers, Cardmakers and Plumbers praying that he might be refused admission. His petition was not granted.
Joseph Basnett, ironmonger, petitioned that a suit which he had commenced in the Exchequer at Westminster against Robert Roberts, butcher, might be made a City cause and defended at the City's charge because it concerned the privileges of the City. Roberts had detained his goods at the Watergate for non-payment of a toll demanded on behalf of the Earl of Derby. It was decided to consult with Mr Recorder before the next Assembly and then to consider the matter further.
William Robinson, plasterer, petitioned for a lease for three lives and twenty-one years of a void piece of ground lying between the Newgate and Barlowe's house and of another piece of ground between Mr Warmingham's and the gate. He would erect a dwelling house here and would build it in the form of a tower so that it might be a defence to the gate. It was decided that he should have a lease for three lives or twenty-one years at a yearly rent of 3s: 4d.
It was again resolved that the enclosures at Hool Heath and St. Anns Rake should continue. |