| Description | Edward Williams chosen one of Vernon's almsmen in the place of George Watt, cooper, deceased, and Richard Annyon, baker, in the place of Thomas Knee, feltmaker, deceased.
Charles Boswell, the City paver, was to have his freedom on payment of £10 on or before the following 1st January. His salary as City paver was to be discontinued.
It was ordered that a quarterly rate should be laid upon the inhabitants for the payment of scavengers. No inhabitant should be rated above 1s. a quarter. Each year the Assembly was to name the assessors for the several wards The house now appointed the persons who were assessors of the late seventeen months' assessment for building thirty ships of war as assessors of the rate for scavengers for the year beginning on 24th December. The Justices of the Peace in the several wards were to appoint collectors. The money collected was to be paid to the Treasurers, who were authorized to contract with and pay scavengers.
(ZA/B/2/187v) John Johnson, innholder, promised to pay to the Treasurers his arrears of rent of £20 a year for the toll of the Bridgegate, and to continue to pay this rent so long as he should enjoy the toll.
Fines were fixed for failing to attend upon the Christmas watch on any one of the three nights, viz. Aldermen and Justices 6s: 8d, Aldermen 5s., Sheriff peers and Councilmen 4s. each. The fines were to be put into the common box in the Pentice and distributed among the poor.
Matthew Browne, bricklayer, was to have a lease for three lives of a void piece of ground on the south side of Simpsons lane near Haughe Greene, for 20s. fine and 1s. yearly rent. He was to be obliged to repair and pave the highway about his dwelling house and building there. |