| Description | Richard Totty, currier, chosen one of Vernon's almsmen in the place of John Fearnall, dyer, deceased.
Gawen Hudson, Alderman, peititioned for a lease for three lives and twenty-one years of the waste ground from the end of the rails at the Roodee to the New Tower. It was ordered that the ground should first be viewed.
Edward Bridge, innholder, stated that his father and he had been tenants of the incoming toll at the Bridgegate for over eighty years past at the rent of £10. He petitioned for a grant of the toll for two lives or twenty-one years at the same yearly rent. It was ordered that his son Benjamin Bridge should be admitted as the City's tenant of the said toll, and should hold it from year to year at the yearly rent of £10.
? The petition of Charles Baswell, City paver, asking for the restoration of his salary of four nobles, was read but not granted. |