[In the Inner Pentice] Reading and proceeding on the orders of the last Assembly...

[In the Inner Pentice]

Reading and proceeding on the orders of the last Assembly was respited till the next.

Upon reading a report by the Recorder, Alderman Cowper and Treasurer Burrowes on the petition of Mr. Thomas Griffith, one of the Council, he was granted the ground so that the buildings there be made according to the plan shown to committee and to be annexed to the counterpart of the grant, paying fine of ten shillings.

Upon reading a report on his petition, Mr. Holme Burrowes, late Treasurer, was granted a lease of the lands belonging to the Hospital of St. John Baptist for 99 years. (ZA/B/4/203) No buildings were to be made or converted into dwelling houses or any person allowed to reside there. He was to pay £5 fine and two shillings and sixpence annual rent.

Upon reading a report by the Recorder, Alderman Ellames and Cotgreave and Treasurer Burrowes on the petition of Ralph Tushingham for a lease of two closes in Guilden Sutton, it was objected that the lands in more money than reported and it was ordered that the Treasurers advertize the fields for the best bidder for the tenants' life under a reserved rent for which the tenant's goods and chattels might be distrained.

The Recorder, Aldermen Nichols, Probert, Cowper, Cotgreave, Egerton, Hesketh and Holme Burrowes, with Mr. Edward Burrowes and Mr. Charles Boswell, or any five, were to be a committee, to view and repair the road from the Watergate to the House of Industry by the Roodee. (ZA/B/4/203v) The expense to be paid out of the Treasury.

Mr. Edward Burrowes, Treasurer, was immediately to have the tower of the Eastgate repaired being allowed the expenses in his accounts.

Upon reading the petition of Mr. Thomas Griffith, one of the Council, he was granted the right to turn the way leading out of the Row by his adjoining buildings into the Watergate Street next to the Cross by laying steps and making another road to lead into Bridge Street to avoid the turn of the corner butt of Watergate Street.

Mr. Joseph Crichley, Serjeant at Peace was to be sent to demand of George Hope, Esq. the arrears of rent due to the City for the Hope Tithes and to give him notice to give up the same at the end of the year on determination of his lease.

John Newell (ZA/B/4/204) innholder, and a freeman, was to be summoned to appear at the next Assembly to show why he should not be disenfranchised for attempting to defraud the Mayor of the tolls.

Public notice was to be given to all persons having made encroachments on any part of the Corporation lands to remove the same or they would be pulled down and any person removing them was to be indemnified by the City.

The petition of Mr. Edward Burrowes, Treasurer, was read desiring a grant to him and his heirs of ground to underbuild the fronts of his two shops on the west side of Bridge Street, 32½ feet in breadth, and extend them equal with Messrs. Store's and Holme Burrowes' shops, projecting 3 feet 4 inches further than the old lower frame but about 6 inches less than the upper frame. An order was made for viewing and reporting.

(ZA/B/4/204v) Henry Pemberton, ropier, in the mayoralty of Roger Massey, had been granted liberty to erect a building for keeping his tools and materials at the end of his Rope Walk (for which he already paid two shillings annual rent) on the eastside of the City Wall where the old building then stood, at sixpence annual rent. The grant having been so made the Subscribers to the General Infirmary prayed a lease of the same at the same rent to make a carriage road to the front of the Infirmary, railing it to cause no inconvenience to people walking the City Walls. The Recorder, Aldermen Nicholls, Probert, Cowper, Cotgreave, Hesketh and Burrowes with Treasurer Edward Burrowes and Mr. Charles Boswell, or any five were to be a committee to view and report.