| Description | Draft minutes concerning orders that all persons who had served as Sheriffs without first having been Leavelookers should pay £5 within fourteen days and, that after this date, the sum should be levied by distress or otherwise by the Macebearer. In future the fine was to be paid before the Sheriff's oath was taken; all persons who became Aldermen without first being Sheriffs should pay £40 before taking the Alderman's oath; no maltsters, brewers or other persons should buy any corn for two months except in the open market, and that only one person from a house should buy corn there, offenders being fined 40s. |