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ZA - City of Chester Assembly - 1407-1857

B - Assembly Minute Books - 1539-1835

C - Assembly: Finance Committee - 1827

F - Assembly Files - 1407-1835

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

P - Assembly Petitions - 1533-1599

1 - Petitions to various Mayors and their Assemblies - 1533-1598

1 - From William Holle, merchant - 1533

2 - From Robert Walley, Sheriff - 1533.

3 - From John Thomas - 1561

4 - From Richard Wright - 1573

5 - From Symon Montford, Hugh Stockton, Richard Brassy and Richard Richardson / Locker, the Aldermen and Stewards of the Company of Smiths - 1573

6 - From Robert Phillipes and Peter Hines, two householders in Pepper Street - 1574

7 - From the Aldermen and Stewards of the Company of Weavers - 1574

8 - From Rafe Dod - 1574

9 - From Katherine, widow of Randle Rixson, late one of the Sheriffs' Officers - 1569/74

10 - From John Ja[illegible], late apprentice of William Goodmen, Alderman, deceased, and now apprentice of his son, Adam Goodman, merchant - 1580

11 - From John Whithede, glover, son of the late Gilbert Whithede - 1580

12 - From twenty wrights and slaters - 1581

13 - From Thomas Whitby, wright - 1584

14 - From Richard Paycok - 1584

15 - From Thomas Benet, shoemaker - 1585

16 - From John Fotnssey - nd

17 - From the Aldermen and Stewards of the Weavers - 1588

18 - From Richard Treeneelde, paver - [1589-90]

19 - From John Williamson - 1590

20 - From James Broster, the Company of Innholders, Cooks and Victuallers, William Rogerson and Robert Dodd - 1590

21 - From Randle Eaton, serveant-at-mace - 1590

22 - From Thomas Barker, innkeeper - 1590

23 - From Robert Smithe, Thomas Barker, Thomas Beedell, the Aldermen and Stewards of the Company of Joiners, the Aldermen and Stewards of the Company of Mercers and Ironmongers, Roger Hardman, Thomas Fletcher, Alderman, and Arther Chauntrell, clothier - 1590

24 - From Rowland Davies, John Midleton and William Hulme - 1591

25 - From James Banester, public notary, and Edward Clappam - 1591

26 - From Rauf Langton - 23 April 1592

27 - From Thomas Beedle, bowyer and maker of musical instruments - 1591

28 - From William Grafton, Lewis Jones and John Albright - 1591

29 - Letter from Edward Halsall to the Mayor and Aldermen - 1591

30 - From Robert Persivall, cardmaker - 1591

31 - To the Mayor - 1592

32 - From Dennis Humfrey - nd

33 - From John Gill, labourer - 1592

34 - From Richard Wright, innkeeper - 1592

35 - From Thomas Asmore, Richard Treneele, James Downam, Thomas Powell and William Seale - 1592

36 - From Elizabeth Diew - [1590-1593]

37 - From the widow of Thomas Cote, labourer - 1593

38 - From Margaret Wilson - 1593

39 - From Thomas Bowyer - 1593

40 - From Thomas Bunce, waterleader - 1593

41 - From Elizabeth Symondes, widow - nd

42 - From Elizabeth, widow of John Wright, skinner - 1593

43 - From Thomas Mercer, John Fromall, Richard Leighe, Robert Leeche and John Smith on behalf of the Company of Barber Surgeons - 1593

44 - From Edward Kelshe/Gilson - n.d

45 - From Robert Radclyfe, merchant, Thomas Prichet, embroiderer, and Thomas ---, hatter - 1596

46 - From William Griffith, trunkmaker, servant to David Trevor, gentleman - 1598

2 - Petitions to the Mayor, William Aldersay, and Assembly - 1595-1599

PA - Assembly: City Pavements - 1805