| Description | It was ordered that the Calves' Head Feast and the Midsummer Show should both be observed that year.
It was ordered that the City boundaries should be ridden that year and that all members of the Assembly without a reasonable excuse should accompany the Mayor.
Sir Philip Egerton, Kt., petitioned for a fee-farm of a void piece of ground lying before his new house without the Barrs. It was agreed that he might have a lease for three lives of so much of the ground as could be granted without prejudice to the highway. He was to pay 40s. fine and 5s. yearly rent.
It was agreed that John Anderson, merchant, and Nathaniel Basnett, apothecary, executors of Margaret Crosse, widow, deceased, should have a lease of a shop under the Pentice for the lives of Thomas, Daniel and James Crosse, children of Margaret, as trustees for the children. They were to pay £10 fine and 40s. yearly rent.
Robert Harvey of London, heir to Robert Harvey, Alderman of the City of Chester, deceased, was to have a fee-farm of certain encroachments on certain parts of the street enclosed into three shops in Bridgestreet. He was to pay 40s. fine and 5s. yearly rent.
It was agreed that Henry Leckonby, ironmonger, might have a lease for three lives of the corner shop under the Pentice for £5 fine and 5s. yearly rent.
Thomas Whittle, shoemaker, was to have a lease for twenty-one years of a little shop in Northgatestreet adjoining the Sunn Tavern for 10s. fine and 8s. yearly rent.
John Maddock, Cryer, was to have a lease for twenty-one years of a void piece of ground without Cowlane gate for 1s. yearly rent. |