Sir,

London December 23, 1704.

I have this day received ye halfe Hogshead of Aile you gave me notiss of in yours dated ye 18th instant and as soone as itt is fitt for drinkeing I will drink yours with ye rest of ye Corporations good 5 healths and prosperity to them, I desire you will give them my thanks and you will oblige.

Gregory Melton his bill [Extracts from]

For 4 Hue and Cryes about the Soldier who killed ye other

£ s. d.

2-0 1799.

for Makeing a String and 2 Tasels for ye Swinhard horn by Mr Brenklors order.

00-05-00

Aug

for Carrying Ramell 3 dayes into trent Lanes
7 paid Marke beardsly for mending ye Castlegate
Well

0-00- -4 0-16-6

0-02-3

20 paid Marke beardsley for mending ye well by
St Maryes Church

25

0-03-4

1 Mr Brentnall. v. Borough Records, vol. v., p. 321, for origin of this horn.

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VIII.-Minutes of the Common Council.

1705. Wednesday October 31.

The Mayor's light.-Ordered That the Chamberlains doe pay Mr Samuel Smith of London fourty shillings which he laid down for the Convex light in Alderman Smiths1 Mayoralty.

3472 fo. 5. Corporation Property in London.-Ordered That a Lease be made for 61 Yeares of the houses in London Scituate in Flower de Luce Lane near Puddle Dock to Charles Haley of London Victualler att £5 Rent with Covenants for Haley to repair and pay Taxes &c. The Lease to Commence att Michaelmas last And 1a Provisoe to be in itt That if the Rent be not paid within 29 dayes after ye daye of payment the Lease to be void. 3472 fo. 5.

15

1705. Monday November 19.

Ordered That Mr Sacheverell have halfe a Hogshead of Ale sent up by this Corporacion as is usuall (he being one of our representatives in Parliament).

1705. Friday November 23.

3472 fo. 6.

The Mayor's light.-Ordered that the Convex light be sett up near Mr Mayors doore and so removed to every successive Mayor and be managed and maintained att the Corporacions charge.

3472 fo. 7. Ordered that the Mayors Serjeant and Common serjeant have 20 Cloaks this Yeare and the Cryer Beadle Keeper of the woods and sealer of Cloth2 are to have Coates as usuall And these to be provided by the Chamberlains against Xmas next. 3472 fo. 7.

1705. December 3.

Coventry Money.-Ordered that Mr William Greaves and John Town do goe to Leicester Northampton Warwick and Coventry to 25 consult with those Towns about agreeing the matter concerning Coventry money &c And they are to be reimbursed what expenses they are att by this Corporacion. 3472 fo. 7.

1 1703-4. v. infra, 23 Nov., 1705. * See Borough Records, vol. iii., p. 112 and note 3 for the duties of the sealer of cloth or aulnager. This office is known

to have existed as early as the reign of Edward I. (Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, 1896, vol. i., p. 434).

1706. Thursday April 25.

Memorandum this day Mr Benjamin Green took a Lease of the Farr Coppice for 21 yeares from Lady Day last att 20li per Annum Rent. The Corporacion to allow Taxes. Mr Green to have Liberty to plow ye place called the Hermitage so as he lay it down 7 yeares before ye end of ye term with ye rest of ye Cove- 5 nants in the old Lease to Mr Mayor etc.

1706. Monday June 3.

3472 fo. 12.

Address to Queen Anne.-Memorandum this day An Addresse to her Majesty to congratulate her upon the glorious Successes in Brabant and Spain &c. was agreed upon and ordered to be sent to Mr Sherwin to be presented to her Majesty by the Earle of 10 Kingston And the Towns seale was delivered to Mr Mayor in order to be affixed to the said Addresse when written.

1706. Thursday July 11.

3472 fo. 16.

The Towns Plate.-Memorandum This day itt is ordered That the Chamberlains do pay £5 towards the Towns plate as usuall in case the Innkeepers will raise their just proporcions as formerly.

3472 fo. 19.

Ordered that the Chamberlains doe pave the way against St Peters Church yard from Mr Fentons to the South-staires1 as soon as may be. 3472 fo. 19.

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20

Field Reeves and the Stint.-Memorandum this day Mr John Greaves Mr Tibson and Mr Shepherd were chosen Feild-Reeves for the Yeare ensuing And Memorandum itt is ordered that no person or persons doe for the future putt more goods Catell or Sheep into the Fields than the stint following viz'. every person who has right to putt Goods there shall putt in but 25 3 horses or Beasts and fourty sheep and no more upon pain for every person offending to forfeit three shillings and four pence for every head of Cattell or Score of Sheep such person shall putt in above that stint which forfeitures shall be Levyed by distresse and Sale of the goods of the Offender and shall 30 be paid for the use of the Corporacion And this order to be publickly made known by the Common Cryer. 3472 fo. 19a.

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IX. Chamberlains' Accounts and Vouchers.
1705. October 8.

£ s. d.

A Bill for the Chamberlins for mending the Towne Lampe o-3-0

1799.

1705. November 14.

Bill of George Tayler

for 5: 4 foot peses for ye pinfoud at Cheni brig

I-8

1799.

1705. Desembr 3.

Mr Chambrlyn newcome pay to John Ellot the sum of Six Shillins and Eight pence for Ringin when Basseloney was taken. John Shipman, Mayor.

1705. December 10.

ΙΟ

Mrs Linley Bill

1799.

30 Gallands of Ale sent to London to the parlement men3 1-17—6

4 oz blew and red and green mowhair 2 small buttons & looplace 4 wax id 2 yds buckrom 2/8d canvas 8d tape 4d thread 17d 25 of yd glaz'd Callico

at 9d
at 14d

0-10-6

1

Chainy Bridge.

12-15-0

1799.

2 Barcelona was captured by the Earl of Peterborough on 9 October, 1705. 3 Members of Parliament.

1705. January the 4.

Received then of Mr John Newcome Chamberlaine of the Corporation of the Town of Nottingham tenn Shillings for a halfe yeares Intrest for twenty pounds Disposed into the Corporation afforesayd by the Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Mrs Elizabeth Bilby (formerly Widow Tibson) due at Christmas 5 last past and to be distributed to 30 poore men and Widows of the Parish of St Nicholas in the sayd Town of Nottingham. I Wee say Received By us

Richard Jackson

Phillip Pymm

1706. June ye 14.

Churchwardens.

1799. 10

Received then of Mr Rippon ye Sum of ten shillings for a Whole Years Rent for A way to ye water? dew from the towne to his Grace ye Duke of Newcastle att Ladyday Last past and is now Received by me. Daniell Smith.

1706. June 3.

2 thimbles3 for the Swine Pinfoude

£0-10-0

1799. 15

£ s. d.

-8

Worke done for Mr Chameberline.

24 loads of mucke from between Sheepe penes4 and ye hen

from 20 loads of ramill from ye glase hous to ye brige in ye brawde lane5

This money was paid at Christmas and May-day.

This is undoubtedly the path referred to in Borough Records, vol. iv., p. 116, 22, as by the Castell Hilles,' which are now represented by Castle Terrace.