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XLVIII.-Presentations at Quarter Sessions.

1726-1727.

14 April 1727 Juratio Constabulariorum presentant Ricardum Lister de Shambleslane pro ponendo Sterquilinium ibidem.1 1494 Juratio Constabulariorum presentant Thomam Hall Butcher pro excindendo Maheremium et Subboscum in Silvis (anglice Cop5 pices) hujus Ville.2

XLIX.--Minutes of the Common Council.

1727. September 30.

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Sheriff's Clerk sworn in.-Memorandum quod tricesimo die Septembris Anno domini 1727 Ricardus Smith generosus Clericus Vicomitis Villa et Comitis Villæ Nottingham predictæ juratus fuit ad officium illud bene et fideliter exequendum coram Josepho Walters to Armigero Majore Villa illius apud domum mancionalem Suam ibidem Scituatam

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Henricus Crafts juratus fuit Imparcator Camporum decimo quarto die Novembris Anno domini 1727 Coram Majore apud domum mancionalem suam predictam.3

1727. November 24.

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New Bridge over the Leen.-Resolved that Samuel Wright and Robie Burden shall and may have liberty to cut down have and use so many trees in the Coppice as shall be sufficient for making a Bridge over the Leen near to the New Wharfe made upon a piece of ground by the Trent Side lately taken of the Duke of Kingston's Trustees 20 not exceeding ten in number vizt. 5 growing and five dead.

3487 fo. 5. Dispute as to election of Councillors. Whereas a peticion of Severall Burgesses of this Town of Nottingham hath lately been

1 Translation:-The Constable Jury present Richard Lister of Shambles lane for placing filth there.

2 Translation:-The Constable Jury present Thomas Hall Butcher for cutting down timber and undergrowth in the coppices of this town.

3 Translation:-Memorandum that on the 30th September, 1727, Richard Smith gentleman, Sheriff's clerk of the town and

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county of the town of Nottingham aforesaid was sworn into that office well and faithfully to carry it out before Joseph Walters, Esquire, Mayor of that town at his dwelling house situated there.

Henry Crafts was sworn keeper of the fields on the 14th November, 1727, before the Mayor at his dwelling house aforesaid.

presented to Mr Mayor for the electing Common Council men of this town Which (as is supposed) will be followed by a Mandamus or Mandamus's or some other suit or suits accion or accions to compell the said Mayor to proceed to such eleccion or eleccions sooner or after a manner disagreeable or repugnant to the Charters usage or customs 5 of this town It is therefore ordered and resolved by this Hall That if any Mandamus or Mandamus's Suit or Suits accion or accions shall be brought comenced sued or prosecuted against Mr Mayor for the Matters or causes aforesaid or any of them by any person or persons whatsoever This Corporacion shall and will at their own proper 10 costs and charges defend all and every such Mandamus or Mandamus's Suit or Suits accion or accions And that this Corporacion shall and will pay satisfy and discharge all such costs charges damages and expences as shall be adjudged ordered or awarded to be paid by Mr Mayor in about or concerning the same any ways how soever And thereof and 15 therefrom Save harmless and keep indempnifyed Mr Mayor his Executors and Administrators. 3487 fo. 5a.

1727-8. Saturday January 6.

Election of Common Councillors.-Villa Nottingham apud Guihall ejusdem Villæ die Sabbati sexto die Januarij Anno regni domini Georgij Secundi nunc Regis Magne Britannie primo ad eleccionem 20 duarum personarum fore et esse de Communi Consilio Ville predicto Secundam Consuetudinem ville predicto a tempore cujus Contrarij memoria hominum non existit usitatam et approbatam in eadem ac Secundam libertates et privilegias ejusdem Ville per diversas Cartas regias inde confertas concessas et confirmatas coram Josepho Walters 25 Armigero Majore Ville illius.

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The Candidates at this Eleccion were Mr Samuel Poe, Mr James Huthwaite Junior Mr James Haynes and Mr John Radfarth and a Poll being demanded for every of the said Candidates (But in regard Mr James Haynes one of the said Candidates had never been Sheriffe 30 of this Town of Nottingham Mr Mayor declared That he was not

1 Translation:-Town of Nottingham. At the Guildhall of the same town on Saturday, 6 January in the first year of the reign of George II. King of Great Britain for the election of two persons to serve on the common council of the said town according to the customs of the said town

in use and established from time immemorial and according to the liberties and privileges of the same town then produced, granted and confirmed in the presence of Joseph Walters, Esquire, Mayor of that

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qualifyed to Stand as a Candidate at this Eleccion or to be a Common Councilman of this town according to the Customs grants and Charters of the same and therefore refused and omitted taking a Poll for him) The same was begun and carryed on for the said three other 5 Candidates vizt. Mr Poe, Mr Huthwaite and Mr Radfarth untill about three of the Clock in the afternoon When by the violence of the tumult the table whereon the Clerks took the poll was broken down to the ground Whereupon great disorder and confusion ensued So that Mr Mayor thought fit to adjorn the said Poll to Fryday the 10 nineteenth day of this instant January to nine of the Clock in the fore noon to this place and the same is hereby adjorned accordingly At which time and place vizt. at the Guildhall of the Said Town of Nottingham the 19th day of January 1727 the Candidates appeared and the poll was renewed and carryed on untill all the Burgesses who 15 appeared were polled and the said Mr Samuel Poe and Mr James Huthwaite appearing to have the Majority of Votes Mr Mayor then and there declared them duely elected and chosen two of the Common Councill men of this town of Nottingham Immediately after which the said Samuel Poe and James Huthwaite took the usual Oath1 for 20 the due execucion of their Said Offices of Common Counsilmen respectively And also the oaths Specifyed in an Act of Parliament made in the first year of the reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary intituled “An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other oaths" before Mr 25 Mayor in the Guildhall aforesaid (divers of the Electors and Burgesses of the said town being then and there present) according to the antient custom and usage of the said town of Nottingham And So the said Samuel Poe and James Huthwaite were admitted Comon Counsilmen accordingly.

The oaths referred to were as follows:
I, A.B. do sincerely promise and swear
That I will be faithfull and bear true
Allegiance to his Majesty King George.
So help me God.

I, A. B. Do swear that I do from my Heart
abhor detest and abjure as impious and
heretical that damnable Doctrine and
Position that Princes excommunicated or
deprived by the Pope or any authority of
the See of Rome may be deposed or
murthered by their subjects or any other
whatsoever. And I do declare that no

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1727-8. Friday February 9.

Disfranchisement of a burgess.-Ordered that Joseph Lent shall be disfranchised from being a Burgess of this Town of Nottingham and shall be debarred from all priviledges imunities and franchises of a Burgess of this Town and he is hereby disfranchised and debarred accordingly He being a Common disturber of the peace and haveing 5 frequently abused the Mayor Aldermen and other Members of this body. 3487 fo. 9.

1727-8. Friday March 8.

The Pinder's fee.-Ordered That the pindars fee in Mr Sherwins Close called the Meadow Platts be viewed in order to sell the same to him and that Mr Mayor and any two of the Hall shall be a Comittee 10 for that purpose. 3487 fo. 10a. The Market Wall.-Resolved that Mr Mayor Mr Dodsley Mr John Huthwaite Mr John Newton and as many of the Hall as please to attend or any four of them shall be a Committee to treat with Charles Wheatcroft or any other paver to pull down the remaining part of the 15 Markett Wall and to pave the ground on which the same stands and the Markett place thereabouts.1

1727-8. Friday March 15.

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Mortgage of the New Buildings in the Market-place.-Memorandum That this day the Common Seal of this Corporacion was affixed to an Indenture of Demise for 500 years bearing date the 9th day of this 20 instant March Being a mortgage to Mr Thomas Langford of all the New Buildings at the Shambles end in the Great Markett place for Securing the payment of £1400 borrowed of the said Thomas Langford by this Corporacion with interest Which Sume the said Thomas Langford paid and delivered to Mr Mayor in Bills and money for the 25 use of this Corporacion And the Common Seal was likewise affixed to a Receipt for the said Sume of £1400 and to a Bond in the penalty of £2800 for performance of Covenants in the said Indenture of Demise.

From this entry it will be seen that the order of 5 April, 1714, was only partially carried out and that a portion of the wall remained standing until this date. In fact, from the paper among the Chamberlains' Vouchers dated 29 April,

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1714, it seems probable that some repairs were carried out. These entries prove that Bailey and others have been quite wrong in ascribing the demolition of the Market Wall to the year 1713, or even earlier.

1728. Monday April 8.

The paving of the Market-place.-It is agreed by and between the Corporacion and Charles Wheatcroft That he the said Charles Wheatcroft shall pave with good large Boulders from the Malt Cross and round the same up to the West Corner of Bear Wood lane and find all 5 materialls and levell and prepare the Ground and do and find everything else about such pavement as the Same hath been measured and set out. In consideracion whereof this Corporacion will pay the said Charles Wheatcroft ninety five pounds and five pounds more if the work be done to the Satisfaccion of this Corporacion and the said 10 Charles Wheatcroft is also to be paid by the Inhabitants on the South Side the said pavement for paving from their doors to the Channell next their houses they having promised to pay for such pavement. (Signed and witnessed) 3487 fo. 12a.

1728. Wednesday May 24.

Sign Posts in the Streets.—Ordered that no Sign posts shall be set 15 in the Streets within this Town and such as are standing in the Streets shall be removed and taken away And that all signs shall be hung on Gibbetts.1

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1728. Friday June 21.

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Ordered that all the Shops in the Shambles be marked and num3487 fo. 16.

1728. Thursday August 8.

The White Rents.-Ordered that the lower part of the White rents belonging to St Peters parish which is about to be under built may be brought out into the Street from the foundacion so as the Wall may catch the joists now jetting out into the Street. 3487 fo. 18a. Charles Wheatcroft having done the pavement near Chappell Barr 25 to the satisfaccion of this Corporacion It is ordered that he shall be paid the £5 for doing the same which was left in suspense

This refers to the tradesmen's signs which were set on posts in front of the shops and which were undoubtedly a great

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public inconvenience in the days of narrow

streets.

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