Description | All former orders of Assembly concerning City grants were to be inserted into the City rent roll. The £10 lately received for prise wine and lent to the Murengers for the repair of the walls was approved. They were to repay it to the Treasury. Richard Totty, currier, a poor aged man, one of Vernon's almsmen, was granted leave to go and live in the country with his daughter, if Mr Vernon's will admitted this. Thomas Simpson, the younger, undergraduate of Brasenose College, Oxford, son of Thomas Simpson, Alderman, was to receive the yearly exhibition of £5 in succession to Mr Brett. It was ordered that the tenant of Watfield pavement should be removed from the property and that the Mayor and Justices should dispose of it. William Johnson, cook, chosen to be one of Vernon's almsmen in the place of William Richardson, deceased. Thomas Davies, carver, was to be admitted to the freedom provided he paid £20 within one month. Charles Jackson, blacksmith, was to have a lease for three lives of a void piece of ground near Spittle Boughton paying the ancient rent of 2s. together with all arrears. Ann Newport, widow, petitioned to have a lease for twenty-one years of Duntsford's meadow near Stanford Bridge at the present reserved rent of £5: 10s. It was ordered that a valuation of the meadow should be made. It was agreed that Edward Hincks should have a lease for twenty-one years of two pasture fields in Gilden Sutton. He was to surrender his existing lease and to pay a fine of 20 nobles and the present reserved rent. It was ordered that the petition of Elizabeth Deane, spinster, should be examined in the Pentice by the Mayor and Justices of the Peace. The petition for the freedom from Thomas Gorton, plumber, was read and laid aside, and that from Hirome Regard was read and refused. |