| Description | Colonel Roger Whitley elected Alderman in the stead of Richard Harrison, deceased. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
Captain Peter Whitley was admitted to the freedom gratis.
Robert Moulson, shoemaker, was to have one portion of Sir Thomas White's money.
Henry Jackson, servant to Sir Peter Pyndar, was to be admitted to the freedom on payment of £20 before October 4th.
Robert Werden, esq., was to have a fee-farm of part of the street before his four cottages, adjoining his dwelling house in Foregatestreet, so that they might be built even with the row before the house which was formerly granted to him.
An encroachment on two yards of Northgatestreet was confirmed to William Mercer, tallowchandler, for a fine of 40s. and the yearly rent of 3s: 4d.
Henry Hall, the younger, tanner, was to have a lease for twenty-one years, after the existing lease, of the messuage and kiln near the Eastgate (Mr Greene's legacy to charitable uses), for £20 fine and the ancient yearly rent.
(ZA/B/2/193) Thomas Hall, gardener, was to have a lease for twenty-one years of a house and barn which he had built on a parcel of ground without the Barrs, for £10 fine and 10s. yearly rent.
Thomas Browne, bricklayer, was to have a lease for twenty-one years of a void piece of ground at the end of Hough Greene pavement for 40s. fine and 5s. yearly rent.
Randle Harrison, tailor, was to have a fee-farm of a piece of the street, which he had taken into his shop, under his dwelling house in Northgate street for 10s. fine and 1s. yearly rent.
Mary Coddington, widow, was to have a fee-farm of two little shops erected under her dwelling house at Werburgh's lane end for £3 fine and 10s. yearly rent.
The Company of Tanners complained that John Maddock, tanner, a member of their Company and City Crier, had, contrary to the custom of the City, taken Thomas Hall the younger, son of Thomas Hall the elder, gardener, as an apprentice to be instructed in the trade of tanner. Maddock had not exercised the said trade for many years, yet had not assigned the apprentice to any other master. The apprentice did not live with him and serve him as an apprentice, but was wholly employed by his father or for himself in husbandry. They petitioned, therefore, that the said apprenticeship indenture might be cancelled. It was ordered that this should be done and that the apprenticeship should not be esteemed an apprenticeship.
John Williamson was confirmed in the office of Yeoman of the Pentice in the stead of William Moreton. |