| Description | Hugh Starkey, barber-chirurgeon, elected Councilman in the stead of William Potter, deceased. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
The Mayor declared his resolution not to admit any foreigner to petition for the freedom of the City during his mayoralty.
The Assembly were informed that Edward Oulton and Isaac Swift, late Sheriffs, were threatened with being called upon to make their opposals in the Exchequer at Westminster and to pass their accounts there. It was resolved that they should be defended at the City's charge.
(ZA/B/2/183) It was ordered that the Auditors should also examine the accounts of Owen Ellis, Alderman, one of the Treasurers, within ten days.
It was ordered that henceforth the Treasurers' accounts should be audited within fifteen days after the election of the Mayor.
The Aldermen of every ward were to nominate persons who should return a list of the names of the inhabitants and set rates upon them for the payment of scavengers. The Aldermen were to report to the next Assembly.
It was agreed that the Christmas watch should not be observed unless the nine persons who had been Mayors and Sheriffs since the Restoration and who had not kept the watch should pay the Treasurers the fines imposed upon them before the following night. Alderman Streete and Alderman Harrison submitted themselves to the house and their fines were abated to £5 each.
It was agreed that George Mainwaring and Benjamin Crichley, late Sheriffs, should pay their 30s. apiece and Francis Skellerne and Robert Hewitt, late Leavelookers, should pay 20s. apiece towards the charge of the Calves' Head Feast in the mayoralty of Alderman Hudson. Other members of the Assembly who attended the Feast were to contribute the remainder of the charge.
The fee-farm of land near the Gorstacks, granted to William Hughes, bricklayer, in the mayoralty of Alderman Streete, was to be viewed by the Mayor, Recorder and Alderman Streete, and in the meantime his building was to be stayed.
It was ordered that Richard Ashton, innholder, should be restored to possession of a parcel of land, formerly in his possession and belonging to the Justing croft, which Mrs Cappur, widow, had lately enclosed. The Treasurers were to recompense Mrs Cappur for the enclosure and to consider what further rent Richard Ashton should pay for it.
The petitions of John Anderson, merchant, John Mottershead, Thomas Chapman, goldsmith, and Thomas Hodgson, junior, were read but not granted. |