| Description | Robert Morrey, Gawen Hudson, Thomas Simpson, John Maddocke and William Ince the younger, Aldermen and Justices of the Peace, or any three of them were appointed auditors of the accounts of William Willme, Alderman, lately Treasurer. They were to audit his accounts within two weeks.
It was ordered that the coal market should be removed from Bridgestreete to the Newgate and the lower end of Fleshmongers' Lane.
It was resolved that the Christmas watch should not be observed that year "in regard of a late dangerous conspiracy against the person and life of his sacred maiesty and the great danger this Kingdome is conceived to bee in of an insurrection by the Roman Catholiques".
Joseph Dyason, tinplate worker, stated that he had married the late housekeeper of the present Bishop of Chester, who had requested that he might be admitted to the freedom. As there were none of his trade his admission could not prejudice any, and it might benefit the City. It was agreed that he should be admitted provided he paid £20 within a week.
Anthony Henthorne, refiner of sugars, was to have his freedom on payment of £50 to the Treasurers and of so much money as he paid to the last Leavelookers to the present Leavelookers.
Robert Sproston petitioned to have a new lease of the shops and chambers in Northgatestreet, near St. Peter's Church, in the several holdings of Thomas Bostocke, apothecary, and John Pemberton, shoemaker, for the lives of himself and of Robert and John Sproston, his sons, at the ancient yearly rent of 40s. He was to have the new lease for £5 fine on surrendering the existing lease for his own life.
Lady Mary Calveley petitioned that the rent of 5s., set upon her for the ground on which she had built the stairs before her house in Bridgestreete, might be taken off. It was agreed that she might have a fee farm of the ground paying only £3 fine.
The rent of 5s. set upon Thomas Wright, ironmonger, for liberty to advance his shop streetward by a foot, was taken off. He was to pay only a fine of 30s.
The petition of Richard Wright, Keeper of the Northgate, was read but not granted. |