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ZA - City of Chester Assembly - 1407-1857

B - Assembly Minute Books - 1539-1835

1 - Assembly Book - 15th century-1624

2 - Assembly Book - 1624-1685

59-59v - City watch - 11 Nov 1642

60 - City defence; provision of arms and ammunition - 6 Dec 1642

60-61 - Election of City Preacher; loans from stock of Robert Offley and William Offley - 13 Jan 1643

61-61v - Election of Alderman; levy for fortifications; lease - 3 Feb 1643

62 - Appointment of keeper of the Common Hall - 17 Feb 1643

62-63 - Elections; payment of soldiers; petitions - 23 Mar 1643

63 - Election; order - 14 Apr, 1643

63-63v - City's messengers to the King - 1 Jul 1643

63v - John Levesley, innholder, was chosen a Councilman in the place of Ralph Burrowes, deceased - 6 Oct 1643

63v-64 - Elections; appointments; admissions to the freedom; petitions, Troops of Horse - 20 Oct 1643

64v - Petitions - 13 Nov 1643

64v-65 - Fines; payment to Lord Capell for removal of soldiers; petition - 1 Dec 1643

65-66v - Election; admission; petitions; order for cleansing of streets; repair to Lord Byron regarding noisomeness of Eastgate - 16 Apr 1644

66v-67 - Election; fines; petition; admission - 24 May 1644

67-67v - Election; petitions; repair of the City gates and cleansing of Eastgate ditch - 19 Jul 1644

68-68v - Appointments; maintenance of garrison; mud walls; petition - 3 Sep 1644

68v-69v - Elections; petition; appointments, order for merchandise to be taken to the Common Hall - 18 Oct 1644

69v-70v - Payments for defence of the City and City's debts - 31 Jan 1645

70v-71 - Raising of funds for Prince Rupert's Foot Regiment; orders - 18 Feb 1645

71v - Assessment for fortifications of garrison and erection of drawbridge - 8 Apr 1645

71v-72 - Elections; removal of muck - 15 Aug 1645

72 - Collection of arrears; levy for maintenance of garrison - 21 Oct 1645

72v - Election; maintenance of garrison - 6 Nov 1645

72v-73 - Assessments - 17 Nov 1645

73-74 - Outstanding payment to the Mayor of York and other Commissioners; accounts; assessment for the maintenance of regiments - 3 Dec 1645

74 - Acquittance; fines - 5 Dec 1645

74v - Assessment; election - 18 Dec 1645

75-75v - Blank - nd

76 - Copy of Ordinance of Parliament; agreed suspension of those taking up arms against Parliament; election of Mayor; Dee Mills demolition - nd

78v-79 - Elections; admission; petition - 23 Oct 1646

79-79v - Election - 17 Nov 1646

79v-80 - Election; appointment; petition - 20 Nov 1646

80 - Apprenticeship indentures; appointments - 1 Dec 1646

80v-81 - Elections; petitions - 26 Jan 1646[/7]

81v - Blank - nd

82 - Copy of Ordinance of Parliament - nd

82v-84 - Elections; petitions; appointments; penalties for absence from Assembly - 6th May, 1648

82v1 - Elections - 17 Mar, 1647[/8]

82v2 - Elections - 24 Mar 1647[/8]

84v - Agreement regarding Lecturer at St Peter's; assessments; City to be put in a posture of defence - 8 Aug 1648

84v1 - William Drinkewater elected Alderman in the place of Robert Wright, late Mayor, deceased - 11 Aug 1648

85-86 - Elections; petitions; stipend for banquet for Mayor; complaint regarding sales on non market days - 8 Sept 1648

86-87 - Orders; summoning of freemen; petition - 10 Oct 1648

87-88 - Assessment for poor of the City; demolition of stone causey in the Dee; no sale of corn except in the open market; admittance of Macebearer - 27 Nov 1648

88v - Demolotion of the causey near Dee Mills; prise wines - 6 Dec 1648

89 - Contempt of an Assembly Order - 20 Dec 1648

89-89v - Suits in the Pentice Court against John Francis for discharge of persons from prison; fine - 16 Jan 1649

89v-90 - Fines; sale of imported corn in the Friers; goods of foreigners to be taken to Common Hall; admission; appointment - 18 Jul 1649

90v-91 - Selling of corn; fines for foreigners not bringing goods to Common Hall; turning the court of the river; gorse; Forrest streete pavement - 31 Jul 1649

91v - Blank - nd

92 - Admission - 2 Oct 1649

92a - Expenses; petition - 10th Oct., 1649

92v-93 - Admission; fines; appointments; Dee Mills - 19 Dec 1649

93 - Election; admission - 1 Feb 1649[/50]

93v - Fines for allowing foreigners to work as taylors - 15 Feb 1649[/50]

94 - Scholars elected to receive stipend - 15 Mar, 1649[/50]

94-94v - Election; admission; petition - 24 May 1650

94v - Fines; cancellation of Michaelmas Fair due to sickness - 30 Aug 1650

95-96 - Election; country bakers; fees; sale of corn by foreigners; keeping of swine; petitions - 25 Mar 1651

96v - Election; collection of tolls; payment of penalties for gorse; repair of Wolfe's Tower - 17 Jul 1651

97 - Admission; election - 16 Sep, 1651

97a - Admission; discharge of Alderman; election - 18 Sep, 1651

97v - Election; admission; wearing of tippets at Assembly; fines - 7 Nov 1651

98-98v - Confirmations of admissions; petitions; plague; haunch feast - 6 Apr 1652

98v-99 - Fines; petitions; assessment - 18 May 1652

99-99v - Dismissal of Counsellor; entering of goods entering the City in book in Pentice office; removal of stone conduit near High Cross; admission - 15 Jun 1652

99v - Petition; admission - 22 Sep 1652

100-101 - The meares and boundes of the Circuite of the liberties of the Cittie of Chester - nd

101v - Election - 4 Feb 1652[/3]

101v1 - Elections; petition - 29 Jul 1653

102 - Maimed soldiers; Sir Thomas White's money; Wiggin men to pay customs and tolls - 23 Sep 1653

102-103 - Elections; discharge of Councilmen; tenement in Sutton; meadow near Stanford Bridge; waterworks; Companies of Joiners and Carpenters; rents; petition; admission - 19 Dec 1653

103-105 - Almsmen; petitions; election; sale of wool at the Common Hall; sending of wine; Eastgate leases; summons; Company of Linendrapers penalties - 15 Aug, 1654

105 - Elections; sale of timber - 6 Oct 1654

105v - Blank - nd

106 - The names of those of the 24 Schollers formerly elected who are to continue according to their severall tymes hereafter mencioned - nd

106v - Elections; dismissal of Schoolmaster; delivery of arms, drums and colours; - 2 Feb 1654[/5]

107-107v - Elections; payment to yeoman of the Pentice for hospitality; rents; lease of waste land in Handbridge; erection of barn - 6 Apr 1655

108-108v - Right of common on Hoole Heath; horsemarket in Northgate Street; records in Treasury - 11 May 1655

109-109v - Building of House of Correction; fees; appointment of Overseer of the Highway; rents; Globe Tavern; night bellman; scholarship at Oxford - 21 Aug 1655

110 - Appointment of Overseers of the Highway - 21 Sep 1655

110-110v - Elections; audits; fines - 2nd Nov 1655

110v-112 - Appointment of Head Schoolmaster of the Free School; nomination of surveyors; payment of customs by men of Washford, Ireland; admissions; leases; petitions - 13 Jun 1656

112 - Elections; admission - 20 Jun 1656

112v-113 - Election; petition - 2 Jan 1656[/7]

113-113v - Resignation; elections; payment of fees from Sheriff's to Recorder - 4 Feb 1656[/7]

113v-115v - Appointment of Almsmen; confirmation and execution of orders relating to sale of goods by foreigners; salary of Schoolmaster; petitions - 5 Mar 1656[/7]

115v - Arrest of Henry Hunt; nominations of attornies in the City Courts - 30 Mar 1657

116-117 - Discharge of Councillor; appointment of auditors; payments for haunch feast; enrollment of apprenticeship indentures in Pentice Office; scholarships; petitions - 22 May 1657

117 - Election of scholars - nd

117v-118v - Assessment for the repair of the Free School; Mayor to attend Pentice; encroachment of Companies - 18 Sep 1657

118v-120 - Appointment of almsmen; Midsummer show; petitions; admissions - 19 Mar, 1657[/8]

120v-121 - Elections; almsmen; haunch feasts; admissions; petitions - 7 May 1658

121v-122 - Almsmen; salary of usher of the Free School; Coroners' salaries; leases - 30 Jul 1658

122-122v - Clerk of the Pentice; leases; order preventing breaking up of the City's soil - 13 Aug 1658

122v-123 - Almsmen; elections; Headschoolmaster salaryl petitions - 9 Sep 1658

123 - The names of those of the twenty-four scholars who were elected on October 4th - nd

123v - Elections; requirement for certificate of election proceedings - 25 Jan 1658[/9]

124-124v - Elections; Company of Butchers complaint; appointment of auditors; lease - 17 May 1659

124v - Raising of three companies of foot soldiers; money for defence of City; continuation of watch at the Pentice; appointment - 9 Aug 1659

125 - Lending of money for the use of the City; petition - 8 Sep 1659

125v-126v - Provision of workers at the House of Correction; rents due to the City; charges for repairs and maintenance of Common Hall and Northgate; cleansing of streets; rents; Pentice Office book of imported goods; bridge over Dee; admissions; almsmen - 30 Mar 1660

127 - Almsmen; discharge of Councilmen; elections; petitions; admissions - 11 May 1660

127v - Blank - nd

128-29 - Company of Carpenters; fines; resignations and appointments; elections - 25 May 1660

129-129v - Fines; petitions - 10 Aug 1660

130 - Resignation; elections; appointments; accounts and auditing - 25 Sep 1660

130v - Resignation; admission; petition - 5 Oct 1660

131-131v - Fines; petition; loans; payment of dues - 8th Feb 1660[/61]

132 - Appointment; Midsummer Show; fees; petition - 22nd Mar 1661

132v - Appointment; assessment for payment of soldiery; match; payment for stones - 30th Apr 1661

133 - Grant; petition - 23rd Aug, 1661

133v - Assessment for the payment of soldiers; lease - 6th Dec., 1661

134-134v - Election; appointment of auditors; Midsummer Show; Company of Clothworkers complaint; petitions - 10th Jun, 1662

135-136v - Meeting for the governing and regulating of Corporations; oaths and declarations; appointments and removals - 26th Aug, 1662

137 - Declaration that the Solemn League and Covenant constitutes no obligation - nd

137v - Copy of Royal Letters Patent, 19th Feb 1662 - nd

138-38v - Appointments; admissions; petitions - 1st Oct., 1662

139 - Elections - 8th Oct., 1662

139v-140v - Assessment for payment of soldiers; appointment of auditors; City Charter; complaints - 7th Nov., 1662

140-141 - Confirmations; fines; petitions; appointments; leases - nd

142 - Petitions; appointment; almsmen - nd

143 - Lease; appointment of Keeper of the Northgate and Night Bellman; petitions - nd

144 - Almsment; petitions; oaths - nd

145 - Oxford scholarship; Linencloth market; petitions - nd

146 - City Charter; admissions; petitions; bowling alley on Roodee - nd

147 - Elections; petitions; bakers to bake bread for all Inhabitants - nd

148 - City Charter; murengers; appointment of auditors - nd

149 - Election; assessment concerning the City Charter; petitions; oaths - 22nd Jul, 1664

149v - Almsmen; admissions - 23rd Sept., 1664

150 - Almsmen; City Charter - 11th Oct., 1664

150-150v - Admissions, appointments - 30th Dec., 1664

151-151v - Elections; almsmen; petitions; admissions; linencloth market; leases - 10th Feb 1664[/5]

152-152v - Election; petitions; Trained band of the City; assessment for royal aid - 4th Aug, 1665

152v - Elections; petitions - 13th Oct., 1665

153-153v - Petitions; butchers stalls; leases - 15th Dec., 1665

154 - Election; petition - 23rd Mar 1665[/66]

154-154v - Election; fines for those putting dirt in the channels in the streets - 10th Apr 1666

154v - Elections; University of Oxford place; petition - 20th Apr 1666

155 - Election; almsmen; Midsummer Show; complaints; Keeper of the Eastgate rent - 8th Jun, 1666

155v - The proceedings of the Assembly of 8th June are entered here a second time - nd

156 - Proposals for ending all differences between the Earl and the City - 20th Aug, 1666

156v - Fines for absence; Company of Mercers and Ironmongers suit; Trafford's Intack; cleaning of streets; fees; flax, yarn and linencloth markets; auditors; Beadles of the City - 9th Nov., 1666

157 - Elections; admissions; petition - 14th Dec., 1666

157v - Almsmen; petitions; gift to Member of Parliament of the City - 16th Jan 1666[/7]

157v-158 - Fines; elections; disposal of the toll of the Bridgegate; admissions - 9th Apr 1667

158-158v - Elections; lease; petitions; removal of buildings near the Star towards St Bridget's Church - 4th Jun, 1667

159 - Oaths; carpenters, sawyers and slaters to trade without restraint from Company - 16th Jul, 1667

159v-160 - Elections; petitions - 22nd Nov., 1667

160v-161 - Elections; admissions; petitions; Midsummer Show - 15th May, 1668

161v-162 - Land in Tattenhall; Owen Jones's money; relocation of flax, yarn and linencloth market; leases; petition - 2nd Jun, 1668

162v-163 - Elections; sword-bearer; Yeoman of the PEntice; petitions; admissions - 7th Aug, 1668

163v - Keeper and Clerk of the Common Hall - 19th Sept., 1668

164-164v - Elections; King's Bench prison; auditors; payment of fees - 27th Jul, 1669

164v-165 - Elections; petitions - 14th Oct., 1669

165-166 - Petitions - 7 Jan 1670

166v-167 - Elections; almsmen; petitions; appointments; admissions; tolls of the City - 29th Mar 1670

167v-168 - Elections; Owen Jones money; payment of fees; petition; leases - 21st Jun, 1670

168-168v - Elections; almsmen; peition; City tolls - 19th Aug, 1670

169-169v - Appointment of scavengers; payments of monies; admissions; appointments - 28 Oct 1670

170 - Repair of the Eastgate - 1st Nov., 1670

170-170v - Payment of fines; admission - 20th Dec., 1670

170v-171 - Slating and tiling of houses to prevent fires; preservation of City stock; gunpowder restrictions; petition; admissions; accounts - 13th Jan 1671

171-171v - Midsummer Show; petition - 12th May, 1671

171v - Admission - 22nd Jun, 1671

171v-172 - Elections; petitions - 4th Aug, 1671

172-172v - Assessment for cleansing of streets; repairing of Eastgate, repairs; petitions; lease - 17th Nov., 1671

172v-173 - Election; killing of swine; payment of assessment; petitions - 22nd Dec., 1671

173-173v - Repair of the point of the Roo Dee and the Eastgate; City rents; lease; petitions - 11th Jan 1671[/72]

173v - Election; admission - 26th Apr 1672

173v-174 - Almsmen; City plate; lease - 2nd Aug, 1672

174-174v - Elections; admissions; lease; rent; encroachments - 10 Oct1672

174v - Auditors; election - 17th Oct., 1672

175-175v - Almsmen; petitions; admissions; leases; Christmas Watch - 17th Dec., 1672

176 - Elections - 16th Jan 1672[/3]

176-176v - Payment for silver badges; appointment of auditors; hinging of benches; retailing ale and beer; summons; leases - 11 Jul 1673

177 - Almsment; lease; yearly exhibition; Christmas Watch - 1st Aug, 1673

177v-178 - Elections; payments; Calves' Head Feast; fines; almsmen; petitions - 12th Dec., 1673

178v - Elections; grants of land - 20th Feb 1673[/74]

178v-179 - Elections; City plate; admissions; petitions - 8 Sep 1674

179-179v - Fines; admissions; petitions - 13th Oct., 1674

179v-180 - Elections; petitions; admissions - 18th Dec., 1674

180 - The Treasurers for the past two years were ordered to appear and deliver their accounts to the auditors before February 26th - 8th Jan 1675

180-180v - Parishes in Chester debate; auditors; leases; petitions - 4th Mar 1674[/75]

181 - Calves' Head Feast and Midsummer Show; City boundaries; petitions; leases - 2nd Apr 1675

181a - Admissions; Keeper of the Roodee - 11th May, 1675

181v-182 - Election; confirmation of Yeoman of the Oentice; petitions; leases - 3 Sep 1675

181v1 - Sir Thomas Grosvenor - 25th May, 1675

181v2 - Election; petition - 15th Jun, 1675

182v - Repairs of Northgate and City Gaol; appointment of auditors; removals; leases - 5 Oct 1675

182v-183 - Elections; defence of late Sheriffs; audits; payment of scavengers; Christmas watch; Calves' Head Feast payment; petitions - 17th Dec., 1675

183v - Elections; Master of the House of Correction - 11th Jul, 1676

183v-184 - Elections; appointment of auditors; petitions - 16 Sep 1676

184-184v - Accounts concerning the repair of Northgate; plate; payment of scavengers; Owen Jones legacy; petitions - 12th Oct., 1676

184a - Robert Taylor and Francis Barton to be made freemen - 18th Feb 1674[/75]

184v - Payment of William Williams - 12th Oct., 1676

185 - Almsmen; horsemarket in Foregate Street; removal of linencloth market; elections; admissions; lease - 23 Mar 1676[/77]

185-185v - Calves' Head Feast; Midsummer Show; encroachments on the City's waste; coal market; Oxford scholarship; removal of linencloth market; leases - 27th Apr 1677

186 - Elections; pontage duty at Dee Bridge; petition - 19th Jun, 1677

186-186v - Petitions, elections, orders, Neston market - 7 Sep 1677

186v-187 - Leases; rent arrears; prosecutions - 20th Sept., 1677

187-187v - Almsmen; City paver freedom; payment of scavengers; rent arrears; Christmas watch fines; lease - 21st Dec., 1677

187v-188 - Elections; rent arrears; admission; fines; petitions - 12 Apr 1678

188 - Almsmen; Midsummer Show; petitions - 7th Jun, 1678

188-188v - Elections; petitions; leases - 20 Sep 1678

189 - Appointment of auditors; removal of coal market; Christmas watch; admissions; petitions - 22nd Nov., 1678

189v - Admissions; petitions; payment of the military guard and the Swordbearer and Macebearer - 19th Dec., 1678

189v-190 - Elections; repair of City walls; prosecution; lease; City paver; petition; admission - 7th Mar 1678[/79]

190 - Election; felling of timber; petitions - 2nd May, 1679

190a - Pinfold land rent; petition; order - 23rd May, 1679

190v1 - Midsummer Show; order; petition - 13th Jun, 1679

190v2 - Payment of Randle Hulme, painter; liberty of feltmaker; petition; admission - 15th Jul, 1679

190v3 - Petitions etc - 28th Aug, 1679

191 - Elections - 9th Oct., 1679

191-191v - Elections; Christmas watch; appointment of auditors; Keeper of the Northgate fees; order; Company of Tailors - 19 Dec 1679

191v-192 - Elections; admissions; damage to the Roodee; lease; petitions - 13th Feb 1679[/80]

192-192v - Approval of reply to letter from William Earl of Derby; Midsummer Show; disfranchisements - 30th Apr 1680

192v-193 - Elections; admissions; Sir Thomas White's money, encroachments; leases; Company of Tanners complaint - 23rd Sept., 1680

193-194 - Elections; rents; fines; leases; encroachment; almsment; petitions - 14th Oct., 1680

194-194v - Elections; Calves' Head Feast; scavengers; leases; appointment of auditors; petitions; admissions - 16th Mar 1680[/81]

194v-195 - Elections; encroachments; leases; clay pits; payment of macebearer; petitions - 2nd Sept., 1681

195 - Admission; payment for cure of broken leg; City's day Bellman; petitions; rent; clay pits - 7th Oct., 1681

195a - Appointment of almsmen - 14th Oct., 1681

195v - Appointment of auditors; summons; petitions - 16th Dec., 1681

196 - Elections; almsmen; admission; petition - 18th Apr 1682

196v - City grants; prise wine; almsmen; yearly exhibition; Watfield pavement; leases; petitions - 10th Oct., 1682

196v1 - Elections; Christmas watch; reimbursement relating to exexution of Pleaseington; appointment of auditors - 19th Dec., 1682

197 - Elections; payment for the King's picture; almsmen; charter of incorporation for Bricklayers - 13th Apr 1683

197-197v - Orders, elections, petitions - 3 Aug 1683

197v - Appointment of auditors; disfranchisements; petitions - 14th Dec., 1683

197v1 - Elections; almsmen; lease; Quo Warranto - 28th Feb 1683[/84]

198 - Election; loss of keys for the common seal; admission - 7th Mar 1685

198-198v - Admissions; gratuities; audit of accounts; valuation of lands and houses; almsmen - 12th Mar 1684[/85]

198v-199 - Soapmaking trade; payment orders; admissions; almsmen; payment of macebearer - 3rd Apr 1685

199-200 - Elections; payment of Captain of the Trained bands; petitions; purchase of plate; repair of the Barrell well; orders - 8th Oct., 1685

200v-203v - Blank - nd

204-210v - Blank - nd

211-214v - Blank - nd

f.58v-59 - Elections; almsmen; raising of men for defence of the City - 21 Oct 1642

3 - Assembly Book - 1684-1724

4 - Assembly Book - 1725-1785

5 - Assembly Book - 1785-1825

6 - Assembly Book - 1825-1835

7 - Index to Assembly Book - [1685-1798]

8 - Index to Assembly Book - [1540-1624]

9 - Index to Assembly Book - [1624-1798]

C - Assembly: Finance Committee - 1827

F - Assembly Files - 1407-1835

O - Assembly Oath Books - 16th century-19th century

P - Assembly Petitions - 1533-1599

PA - Assembly: City Pavements - 1805