| Description | Henry Leckonby, ironmonger, elected Councilman in the stead of John Johnson, innholder. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
William Streete, Robert Morrey, Thomas Simpson and Henry Lloyd, Aldermen and Justices of the Peace, were appointed auditors of the present Mayor's accounts as Treasurer.
(ZA/B/2/188v) A petition from Randle Minshull, macebearer, desiring to have the privilege of being Collector of the Toll of the Bridgegate restored to him, and another from Elianor Johnson, widow of John Johnson, innholder, deceased, desiring that she might be tenant of the gate as her husband had been, were read. It was put to the question whether Randle Minshull should hold the gate for a year from Michaelmas following at the rent of £20 or not, and it was decided that he should not.
Thomas Wright, ironmonger, petitioned for liberty to put forth his shop in the Bridgstreete a foot street-ward so far as the street door of Lady Mary Calveley. He was granted this liberty for 20s. fine and 5s. yearly rent.
Lady Mary Calveley had lately built a large pair of stairs upon the public street before her house in Bridgestreete. It was ordered that she might have a fee-farm of the ground on which she had built for 40s. fine and 5s. yearly rent, provided she accepted before Christmas.
Katherine Niccho, widow, was to have a lease for three lives of a parcel of ground in the lane without the Northgate, leading towards the Gorstacks, under the yearly rent of 5s., in lieu of the house and ground which she had lately had upon the hospital land without the said gate.
The petition of Henry Standish, brasier, was read but not granted. It was agreed, however, that if he paid £25 within a month to the uses mentioned in an order of Assembly of April 12 th last, he might be sworn a freeman.
Richard Deane, son of William Deane, carpenter, deceased, stated that many years ago his father had built a little dwelling house, at his own charge, on part of the City ground near Houghe Greene and that he had enjoyed it during his life at the yearly rent of 5s. He petitioned to be admitted tenant at the same rent. The Treasurers were ordered to view the house and to report its value. |