| Description | An order made at the Sessions of the Peace for the County of the City of Chester on 6th September last for raising £150 towards the further repair of the Northgate, being the City Gaol, and for payment of £14 due to prisoners in the King's Bench and Marshalsea at Midsummer was approved and confirmed.
The Treasurers were to examine what money had been collected and what debts were contracted for the repair of the Northgate.
Henry Lloyd, Alderman, and William Ince the younger, Alderman, were added to the auditors appointed on 18th December.
The Mayor, Justices of the Peace, Aldermen and most of the Council had lately desired Robert Taylor, weaver, and Francis Barton, woolcomber, to remove themselves and families from Norwich to Chester to set up a manufacture for employing the poor. By an instrument dated 18th Feb. 1674[/75] (see f.184a) they were assured that they would be made freemen. It was now granted that they should have their freedom.
Richard Wright, Keeper of the Northgate, was to have a lease of a void piece of ground on the east side of the Northgate at the yearly rent of 1s. for as long as he should continue Keeper of the gaol.
Benjamin Jones, Mayor of Beaumaris, was to have his freedom on payment of the usual fees. |