Catalogue description The Murengers, William Ince and Peter Edwards, Aldermen, delivered in an account for...

The Murengers, William Ince and Peter Edwards, Aldermen, delivered in an account for £133: 6s: 6d which they had disbursed for the repair of the City Walls. Their account was allowed, and it was ordered that to reimburse them this sum should be taken up at interest, and that the Common Seal should be affixed to a proper instrument as security for its repayment.

In future rubbish brought from the City to Pudding Hill was to be laid on such part of the Roodee as the Treasurers (or the Keeper of the Roodee as their agent) should direct. The Treasurers were to allow 1d. a load.

It was ordered that the Mayor and Citizens should commence a suit for the recovery of the Angell Inne as an escheat.

Thomas Broadhurst, gent., was to be admitted to the freedom on payment of £10 within a week.

John Read's fine for admission was reduced to £5, which was to be paid within a week.

Joseph Williams, John Wrench, watchmaker, (ZA/B/3/27) and Ralph Massey, cordwainer, were to be admitted to the freedom on payment of £5, £10 and £10 respectively within a week.

Upon the Mayor's report, it was ordered that John Anderson, Alderman, should have a grant in fee-farm of a parcel of ground without the Northgate on the north side of Dee Lane for 13s: 4d. yearly rent.

Thomas Chrichley, Deputy Macebearer, complained in a petition that Randle Minshall, Macebearer, was very remiss and negligent in paying his salary of £4, as ordered on 7th February. It was ordered that if Minshull did not pay the arrears due by the following 29th September, then the tolls usually received by the Macebearer should be taken by such person as the Mayor should appoint, so that Chrichley should receive satisfaction.

The Treasurers were ordered to view a void piece of ground in Clayton Lane by the side of the City wall, over against the Nine Houses, which Hugh Hand, joiner, petitioned to have on lease for three lives.

Upon reading the petition of William Ingram, cabinet-maker, and the counter-petition of the Company of Joiners, Carvers and Turners, it was ordered that the said Ingram should be admitted to the freedom for a fine of £5. He was to be restrained to the trade of a cabinet-maker only.

Thomas Hughes set forth in his petition that he had paid a considerable sum of money to Alderman Wilson, in the time of his Mayoralty, to purchase the place of one of the Mayor's officers, then vacant, and he was admitted thereto and confirmed by Assembly order. Upon the late revolution, however, he had been dispossessed, and he prayed to be confirmed in the office. It was ordered that he should be confirmed in his place of one of the Mayor's Sergeants or Officers.

ZA/B/3/27v The executors of Richard Harrison, brewer, deceased, certified that, according to Harrison's will, they had raised a considerable sum of money by sale of some houses. For want of a purchase of lands in the county, as the will appointed, £400 of this money was at present secured upon a mortgage at 5 per cent. With the residue of the money they had clothed with gowns and badges four poor men, who were maintained with the said interest money. Yet a further sum remained in their hands, as appeared by their accounts. The will directed that the money should be laid out upon a purchase of lands in the county, and that the profits should be used to maintain poor men in the City, who should be chosen, apparelled and maintained in the same way as Vernon's almsmen. They therefore requested the Assembly to take over their accounts and the said securities and to discharge them, since they had performed their trust. It was ordered that the Mayor and Treasurers should receive the executors' accounts and an assignment of the mortgage, and that the executors should be discharged from their trust under the common seal.

In their petition the Company of Cordwainers stated that they were assured that John Pemberton, sometime of this City, shoemaker, had lately taken Joseph Eaton as his apprentice for seven years, although Pemberton did not then reside and follow his trade in the City and Joseph Eaton did not serve him as an apprentice ought. By this design the pretended apprentice intended to obtain his freedom of the City at the end of seven years. They prayed that their petition might be recorded against the parties and that care might be taken to prevent Eaton's admission. It was ordered that the petition should be recorded, and that Joseph Eaton should never be admitted by virtue of the said indentures.

In his petition Thomas Reece stated that he and his partners had spent a considerable sum in enclosing and building on the land lately granted him from the City and in raising a cart pavement from the Bridge to the gate leading to the Roodee. Certain swine styes under the City walls, against their buildings, were very offensive. He and his partners now needed a small parcel of ground from their buildings towards the Roodee for room for their carts. They asked for a lease of the ground lying between their enclosure and the City Wall, to prevent such nuisances for the future, and for forty yards in length of the ground from the end thereof towards the Roodee, between the City walls and the river, leaving a sufficient cartway to the Roodee. The matter was referred to the Justices of the Peace and the Treasurers, or any five of them. They were to meet on 22nd September and view the ground, and were authorized to appoint, by an instrument in writing, what ground should be granted, the term and the rent. (ZA/B/3/28) Such an instrument should be taken as a deed of the Assembly and be a sufficient warrant for drawing and sealing indentures between the Mayor and Citizens and Thomas Reece.

In their petition Robert Callais, gent. and Evan Jones stated that they had been at great charge in building their warehouse and dock, but that they now found that a sluice and drain would be necessary through the whole length of their ground to clear the dock from the accumulation of sands, owing to the fact that their ground was not of equal breadth at each end. They therefore prayed for a grant of land on the side towards the Water Tower, so that their ground might be made of equal breadth. The petition was referred to the consideration of the Justices of the Peace and the Treasurers or any five of them. They were to view the ground and appoint what should be granted and under what terms.