| Description | John Johnson, innholder, elected Councilman in the stead of Richard Smith, deceased. He took the oaths and subscribed the declaration.
Thomas Simpson, Alderman, was granted liberty to alter the three lives in the lease of the messuage at Dee side near the bowling alley near St. John's Church for such other lives as he pleased or to assign over his interest.
It was ordered that if Mr Anthony Henthorne prosecuted any suit against the Leavelookers concerning customs or tolls, the suit should be made a City's cause.
It was resolved that the common seal should not be affixed to the address to be presented to the King.
Aldermen Thomas Simpson and William Ince and the Treasurers were to acquaint the Bishop that the rails set up before his palace near the cornmarket were on the City's land.
The Recorder was to be thanked for his generous promise to pay the costs, amounting to £55 and upwards, taxed against Randle Minshull, Macebearer, at the suit of several Maxfield [Macclesfield] men at the late Assizes for the county of Chester.
Joseph Maddock, tanner petitioned for a fee-farm of a void plot of ground without the Barrs. It was ordered that it should be viewed.
(ZA/B/2/197v) John Bennett, barber, was to hold a little shop which he had erected in the row before his house in Bridgestreete during the City's pleasure at the yearly rent of 1s.
The petitions of John Jones, yeoman, and Thomas Clarke, innholder, were read but not granted.
Thomas Simpson the younger, student of Brasenose College, Oxford, was to have the yearly exhibition formerly granted to John Brett. |