[In the Inner Pentice] Thomas Amery, linendraper, elected Councilman, had declined...

[In the Inner Pentice]

Thomas Amery, linendraper, elected Councilman, had declined to accept and was fined £40 unless he conform before the next Assembly when the recovery of the fine would be ordered.

John Whitbye, malster, was admitted to the freedom paying £20 within one month.

William Ridgeway was admitted paying £20 within one month.

John Eltoft was admitted (ZA/B/4/210v) paying £20 within one month.

George Griffith, mercer, was admitted paying £35 within one month.

Upon reading the petition of Robert Lloyd, hatter, for a lease of a piece of waste ground in Boughton adjoining the river, 30 yards long by 8 yards with liberty to build a workhouse for his trade and to make a road from the intended building, consideration was respited till the next Assembly.

Upon reconsidering the petition of James Comberbach, gent. Concerning property in Fleshmongers Lane [as made on 19th October 1762 p. 205v] (ZA/B/4/211) and his objections to the order of the last Assembly thereon, it was ordered that on surrender of the lease another grant be made under the seal of the Hospital of St. John Baptist for three lives (including the two in being) with power to add a new life on the death of each of the two lives named in the new lease, within six months after each death, and for a further twenty-one years, at £2. 2s. annual rent every 29th September and on a fine of £5 payable on making the lease referred to above, and that he erect and repair a substantial brick house there.