| Description | Jonathan Ridge and Charles Farrington elected Councilmen.
The Company of Tailors petitioned that they were deprived of the benefit of their trade by widows who maintained foreigners to work under them and by other foreigners who worked for themselves. It was therefore ordered that widows who sold their freedom to foreigners, by taking some small allowance and thereby authorizing them to work under them, should be warned, and, if after two admonitions they continued to offend, should be disfranchised. The foreigners should be proceeded against according to former orders.
John Wildinge, yeoman of the Pentice, showed that it had been the custom for him and his predecessors to provide a small banquet for the Mayor and his brethren every Sabbath afternoon, for which he had received a stipend. Since the custom was now discontinued he sought some other benefit. It was ordered that the Treasurer should pay him 10s. a quarter.
Complaint was made that some foreigners inhabiting in the City were keeping open shop every day for the sale of mugs, glasses, and such wares. It was ordered that foreigners should only sell such wares on market days, and that as soon as any freeman should follow this calling the foreigners should be suppressed.
(ZA/B/2/85v). William Grice, who was disfranchised by Ordinance of Parliament of 1st Oct., 1646, was restored to the franchise after having produced a petition and a letter in his favour from Sir William Brereton and others of the Committee who obtained the said ordinance.
(ZA/B/2/86). It was ordered that the remainder of the first assessment and half of the second assessment made in the time of the Infection should be collected.
It was ordered that the gentlemen of the county should be written to again for the £1100 due to the inhabitants of the City for quartering soldiers. Failing a satisfactory answer, the bond should be put in suit.
On the petition of John Poole, haberdasher, the Assembly granted him a lease for twenty-one years of a shop in Northgate Street under the Pentice, which he had held for the last five years by assignment of the lease of Edward Fitton, late Swordbearer. He was to pay a fine of £3 and 20s: 6d yearly rent. |