| Description | Francis Leech of Mollington was to be admitted to the freedom provided he paid £5 within fifteen days.
A gratuity of 20 guineas was to be presented to Dr. Owen Wynne for the pains he had taken in procuring the late charter granted to the City by Charles II. Mr John Kegge was also to have a like sum for his care in sollicitation about the same business. The Mayor was to pay them in London.
Aldermen Thomas Wilkocke, Thomas Simpson, William Ince and William Wilme and the present Treasurers or any three of them, were to audit the accounts of the late Treasurers, Muragers and Leavelookers and of the late Mayor, Mr William Street.
(ZA/B/2/198v) The same persons were ordered to inspect all leases of lands and houses formerly granted by the City, and to report on their values to the next Assembly.
Aldermen Thomas Wilcock, Thomas Simpson, William Ince, William Wilme, Henry Bennet and Valentine Short, Aldermen Wilson, Oulton, Skellerne and Allen and the Treasurers, or any three of them, were to inspect the orders and bye-laws of the City, and to report to the next Assembly those which they considered should be revived. They were also to report what sums of money had been paid yearly to the officers of the militia, by whom and when.
The order of Assembly of 14th December, 1683, against Richard Wright was revived.
Peter Cooke, fishmonger, and John Lurling(?), feltmaker, chosen as almsmen of John Vernon in the places of William Leigh and Edward Williams, deceased. |