| Description | William Wilson, tanner, elected Alderman in the stead of his father, William Wilson, Justice of the Peace, deceased. John Burroughes, draper, elected Councilman, in the stead of William Wilson, tanner. They took their oaths and subscribed the declaration.
John Manwaring, esq., eldest son of Sir Thomas Manwaring, bart., and Thomas Whitley, esq., eldest son of Colonel Roger Whitley, were to be admitted to the freedom gratis.
It was put to the question whether £2: 5s: 4d, disbursed by Nathaniel Williamson, lately Treasurer, towards the repair of the pavement near the Blew Bell without the Barrs, should be allowed or not. It was resolved that it should be allowed as a gift from the City but was not to be regarded as a precedent. It was ordered that £2 disbursed by the late Treasurer, by order of the Mayor, upon the occasion of the execution of one Pleaseington, convicted of being a Romish priest, should be disallowed as the charge of the execution of persons convicted and executed at Boughton ought to be borne by the Keeper of the Northgate.
(ZA/B/2/192) Five Aldermen or any three of them were ordered to view what damage had been done in the Roodee by the building of the ship of Alderman George Manwaring, Mr Michael Johnson and partners. The proprietors were to pay compensation for the damage.
It was ordered that John Maddock, Alderman, should, within a week, pay the Treasurers for the grass for his two cows and for his horse grass on the Roodee in the time of his mayoralty.
Elizabeth Halliwell, widow, was to have a lease for twenty-one years of the barber's shop which she had lately had built on the stall before her dwelling house in Northgate street. She was to pay 20s. fine for building without the consent of the Mayor or Treasurers, and was to pay 5s. yearly rent or else the shop was to be taken down.
The Linendrapers stated in a petition that they had the privilege, confirmed to them by a charter of 6 Edward VI from the City, of being an ancient company, separate and distinct from all other trades. In 1603, by order of the Mayor and Justices of the Peace, they admitted the Bricklayers to join with them in setting forth certain pageants at the Midsummer show. They had found the Bricklayers very troublesome and unserviceable, being poor and unable to contribute to the defence of the Company's privileges. They desired that the Bricklayers might be debarred from being members of their Company and that they might be restored to their ancient privilege of being a separate Corporation of themselves. An order was made to this effect. |