| Description | It was put to the question whether the Sheriffs and Leavelookers of the previous year ought to have observed the ancient custom of the City by keeping the Calves' Head Feast, contrary to the command of the Mayor. It was decided that they ought to have done so and it was ordered that they should be fined £10.
(ZA/B/2/185v) It was ordered that the Midsummer Show should be observed at the following Midsummer and thenceforth yearly.
The following persons or any five of them were appointed to enquire concerning encroachments on the City's waste and concealments of lands and rents: William Streete, Robert Morrey, William Wilson, Gawen Hudson, Thomas Simpson, Richard Wright and Henry Lloyd, Aldermen and Justices of the Peace, William Ince and William Willme, Aldermen and Treasurers, William Harvey and Peter Edwards, Aldermen, and William Wilson, Edward Oulton, Thomas Wright, Randle Hulme, Edward Bridge, Francis Skellerne and Robert Hewitt.
It was ordered that the coal market should be kept between the two churches and the Castle lane end on both sides of the street.
Robert Okell was ordered to make out his title to a messuage near the bowling alley by Dee side, of which he pretended to have a lease for lives yet in being, before the next Assembly. The Treasurers were to report on its value to the next Assembly.
The two cottages upon the garden-place under Spittle Boughton near Dee side were declared to be excepted out of the grant of the said garden-place to John Davies.
The Mayor and the Treasurers were to examine the truth of the accounts given in by the tenant of Watfield pavement. If they proved untrue a letter of attorney was to be made for entry upon the premises.
It was agreed that Isaac Swift, merchant, should have a lease for twenty-one years of the ground formerly granted to John Ratcliffe, esq., lying before his then dwelling house and other buildings, (except for the part since leased to Henry Johnson, joiner,) for 20s. fine and 1s. yearly rent. The Treasurers must first approve his intended work.
It was agreed that Hugh Barkeley might have a lease for twenty-one years of the parcel of waste ground before his cottage near the Abbey gate for 5s. fine and 1s. yearly rent.
It was ordered that the flax and linen-cloth market should be removed into the Row in Watergate street where it was formerly held.
Robert Offley's exhibition of £5 for a scholar's place at Oxford was granted to John Brett, student and undergraduate of Brasenose College, son of Richard Brett, merchant.
The Treasurers were ordered to pay Thomas Carter, joiner, £8: 10s: 0d. for timber he had supplied for rebuilding the Northgate. They were to pay Thomas Haukshaw, plumber, £4: 14s: 1d. for lead and for work on the repair of the Northgate. |