| Description | Draft copy minutes. [Not entered in ZA/B] The money expended by order of Thomas Willcock, Alderman, late Mayor, on certain works at the Roodee and placed to account by the Treasurers was allowed to them as the works were beneficial in securing the Roodee from the river. The sum of £10. 15s., given by the late Mayor to an Engineer to view the river in order to make the same navigable and placed in the Treasurers' accounts, was allowed as Assembly could not conveniently be called to give assent. It is not to be a precedent. The accounts of the present Treasurers were allowed except for £8.14s. paid to Mr. George Wilson, contrary to an Assembly order of 4th August. The allowance for repair of the Eastgate was suspended until the Sheriffs had taken a particular account of money charged for that and other purposes, how it had been levied and spent. Within two weeks the Sheriffs were to examine how much had been charged on the several wards of the City for repair of the Eastgate and cleansing the streets, how much had been collected, to whom it had been paid and how it had been spent. Their account was to be presented to the next Assembly. Upon the petition of Thomas Bibby, and on reading a letter from Sir John Arderne, it was granted that he be admitted to the freedom paying £5 within a week. George Wright petitioned to be admitted. It was granted that he be made a freeman paying £10 within a week. Randle Minshull, Macebearer, petitioned for a resolution whether custom was due to the City for cheeses conveyed through the same. Assembly considered that the cheeses were 'toleable' and that he might distrain according to law. Upon the petition of Elizabeth Edge, widow, for a lease for 3 lives and 21 years of a piece of waste ground, 9 yards by 18 yards, it was ordered that the Treasurers view and report. Raph Bingley, tallow chandler, was admitted City tenant of the Salt grass between Port Poole and the Starting (stone) for a year, paying 30s. at Michaelmas. The petition of the Company of Glovers was read but not granted. |