| Description | Draft copy minutes. Thomas Ashton, innholder, was elected Councilman, in place of Thomas Annion, deceased, and he took the oaths and subscribed the declaration, and also the oath of the forty or Common Council. Upon the petition of Ann Newport, widow, formerly presented, desiring to be continued tenant to the City of Duntford meadow, and upon report by the Treasurers of the true yearly value, it was ordered that she should have a term of 7 years from 2nd February next, at the accustomed rent of £5.10s. and a lease made accordingly, or she might have a lease for 21 years paying £5 fine and the same rent. Upon the petition of Thomas Ley, innholder, formerly presented, for a lease of a 'mease' place with appurtenances, in Foregate Street adjoining the Eastgate and walls, where formerly stood a messuage and tenement in the possession of his father, it was ordered that he might have a lease for three lives and 21 years, at yearly rent of 30s. Upon the petition of Margery Butler, widow, desiring a new lease of a messuage and tenement with appurtenances in Eastgate Street near the Eastgate under the accustomed rent, and as it appeared, upon entering into debate, that it was the intent and meaning of Thomas Greene, Alderman, deceased, by his deed of feoffment of 9th January, 44 Elizabeth [1602] that if ten or nine of the grantees therein named had died, then their survivors should grant the same unto twelve other citizens being Aldermen, their heirs and assigns and so continue from twelve persons to twelve persons. As only three of the last grantees survived, Aldermen Sir Thomas Smith, Richard Dutton and Charles Walley, Esqs., it was ordered that a conveyance be made and executed by the three surviving grantees to twelve other Aldermen, namely Richard Broster, Esq., Mayor; Richard Leving, Esq., Recorder; and Aldermen Thomas Throppe, Robert Harvey, Thomas Cowper, William Ince, William Crompton, Richard Bird, Richard Minshull and Arthur Walley, Justices of the Peace, and Aldermen Robert Cappur and John Poole, their heirs and assigns, to the uses of the original deed. It was further ordered that then the petitioner should have a lease for 21 years at the accustomed yearly rent of £11. Upon the petition of William Bramley, sadler, desiring a lease of a parcel of waste ground in Cowlane before his house, 36 feet long by 20 feet, it was ordered that the Treasurers View, and report to the next Assembly and then the request would be taken into further consideration. Randle Holme, administrator of the goods and chattels of his late father, Randle Holme, Alderman, deceased, petitioned, showing that by Assembly order of 30th March 1660 the accounts of his father, when Treasurer, were to be audited, and that five of the referees had certified (over a year since) that there remained due to the deceased £80, whereof he desired payment. As there is no such certificate entered in the books or papers of Assemblies here produced, the matter was deferred until he should produce such certificate and the same will then be further considered. |