| Description | Includes petition of John Parks to be Master of the House of Correction (part 1); list of papists 1678 including Joanna Bourlace wife of Edward Bourlace, Doctor of Physic, and Margaret wife of Cuthbert Parker, jeweller (part 2); order for the assessment of the whole city for the poor rate Sept. 1679 (part 3); table of fees to be taken by the Keeper of the Northgate Gaol, April 1680, (part 4); presentment of Mayor and some aldermen for soliciting votes for the next Mayor 7 Oct. 1680; order for the assessment of the whole city for repair of highways 15 March 1680/1; deposition by Hugh Conway, silkweaver, concerning proposed address by some members of the Corporation to the King re his declaration to permit frequent parliaments, 22 July 1681; petition by grand jury in absence of Recorder against Mr. Cooke, John Harvey and Mr. Hull as illegal preachers, and against John Goulbourne, teaching school in the city contrary to Act 17 Charles II, cap. 2., 27 Jan. 1681/2, including printed signature of William Starkey; declaration by grand jury against proceedings at Old Bailey against Earl of Shaftesbury, and their support for the Crown and established religion, 10 April 1682 (part 5); Hearth Tax returns, L.D. and Mich. 1673 and L.D. 1674 (part 6). |