| Description | Auditors were appointed for the accounts of the late Treasurers and for the assessment money received by the Treasurers by virtue of an order of the Sessions of the Peace.
It was resolved that the Christmas watch should be dispensed with for that year.
All members of the Assembly who had been Leavelookers were ordered to prepare a table of the City's customs to be received by the Leavelookers.
Antony Henthorne was to be summoned to appear before the Mayor, Recorder and Justices of the Peace to answer concerning customs demanded from him for goods imported.
Petitions were read from Thomas Davies, carver, desiring to be made a freeman and from the Company of Joiners, Carvers and Turners in opposition to this grant. It was ordered that the matter should be examined in the Pentice before the Mayor and the Justices of the Peace. They were also to examine the suggestions in the petition of William Terrey, founder in brass, seeking admission, and that of the Company of Pewterers in opposition.
It was ordered that the petitions of Richard Vernon, servant to Madam Whitley, and of Thomas Acscough, cook to the Bishop of Chester, asking for their freedoms, should be read at the next Assembly.
Henry Boulton, feltmaker, and Samuel Hiccock, innholder, each petitioned for a portion of £25 of Sir Thomas White's money. It was ordered that the portion should be granted to whichever of them brought the better sureties within one month.
Edward Hincks, innholder, petitioned for a new lease for twenty-one years, after the expiry of his present lease in three years' time, of two fields of pasture in Gilden Sutton. The Treasurers and Aldermen Streete, Murrey and Wilme were to view the property and to report its value to the next Assembly.
The petition of John Salmon, barber, for liberty to erect a barber's shop on part of the stall of Francis Jackson the younger, before his dwelling house in Eastgatestreet, was read but rejected.
The petition of Thomas Dodd, innholder, for enclosing the row before the house in his possession belonging to Mr William Martin was rejected because the said Mr Martin desired the liberty might not be granted.
John Dobb, glover, complained that although he had served an apprenticeship in the City as a glover and had been admitted to the freedom as an apprentice, the Company of Glovers had refused to admit him. It was ordered that the Glovers should admit him as an apprentice for the usual fine and duties. |