he be allowed the summe of Twenty pounds And itt is Ordered That he be paid the same and also One hundred ninety four pounds one shilling and six pence being the Expences by him laid out in the suit against Coventry so that ye whole due to him on that account is Two hundred and fourteen pounds one shilling and six pence. 5 And Whereas the City of Coventry ye 26th day of June last entred into one bond to this Corporacion for ye payment of £260 with Interest on ye 26th day of December the Interest whereof to this day is computed att £3 - 18 - o and whereas the above named Mr Sherwin hath now paid to this Corporacion the summe of 10 £49-16- [torn] which with the summe of £214-1-6 before mencioned to be due to the said Mr Sherwin amounted to the full summe of £263-18 [torn] being the whole money due on the said Bond. Itt is therefore ordered that the said Mr Sherwin doe receive the money due on the said bond to his own use. 1707. Tuesday October 14. 3474 fo. 3. 15 Fines for lateness and non-attendance at Council Meetings.Whereas the Burgesses of this Town of Nottingham have entrusted us whose hands are hereunto sett (as their Representatives) to transact all matters relating to the Corporacion for the publick Weal and Advantage of this Town and the same can't be perform'd 20 without Publick Meetings att the Hall which is in the power of the Mayor of the said Town for the time being to appoint and to summon the Members of the Corporacion for that purpose But whereas we find by experience That for want of due Attendance att such Publick Meetings great damage does accrue to this Corporacion 25 besides the unnecessary trouble itt creates to the said Mayor and others and that the Endeavours hitherto used to prevent the same have proved Ineffectuall For a sufficient remedy therefore for the future Itt is ordered and we do hereby agree That if any Member of this said Corporacion (being duely summoned according to the 30 usuall manner) doe neglect to give his Attendance on Mr Mayor for the time being att the Towns Hall upon any Publick-Meeting (commonly called a Hall-day) for the space of half-an-hour after the time appointed for such meeting, or being mett doe go away from the place of Meeting without licence of the Mayor, or doe appear 35 there without his Gown such person shall forfeit and pay to the Mayor of this Corporacion for the time being for the use of the poor of this Town (except he have leave granted by the Mayor to be absent or go away) the summe of One Shilling for every default which said forfeitures shall be paid on demand or otherwise for want of payment by ye space of three dayes after demand shall by Warrant under 5 ye hand and seale of the said Mayor for the time being be levyed by distresse and sale of the goods of the respective persons so making default as aforesaid rendring the Overplus (after reasonable charges are deducted) to the owner thereof. W. Drury Mayor 10 Francis Salmon Alderman William Barke Alderman 15 William Woolhouse Roger Hawkesley Roger Radfarth James Huthwaite John Kitchin Francis Armstrong Alexander Burden. 3474 fo. 4. The White Rents.-Memorandum this day Mr Jacob Tibson Mr 20 Alvery Dodsley and Mr Thomas Fillingham were Chosen Trustees for the White-Rents1 And itt is ordered That the Old-Trustees give up their Accounts the next Hall-day. 1707. Thursday November 13. 3474 fo. 4a. o Memorandum this day this house agreed That £2 - 100 being what is now in ye purse shall be distributed amongst such persons 25 as were very serviceable in extinguishing the late dreadfull Fire William Gregory, Town Clerk of Nottingham, by his will (proved 1617) 'gave to John Gregory, his brother, eleven little tenements with the appurtenances, called 'the White Rents,' situate at Houndsgate end, within the town of Nottingham, for his life, and after his death he gave the same to the mayor and burgesses of that town, and their successors, to the intent that the same might remain for ever almshouses for poor aged people to dwell in free, without any rents to be paid for the same, the said poor people to be placed therein by the mayor, aldermen, and common-council of the said town for ever. He also gave to the said mayor and burgesses, and their successors, a yearly rent charge of 40s. for ever, to be issuing out of his close of pasture-ground called Boycroft, lying at the Wood-lane end, in the way of St. Anne's Well, within the said town of Nottingham, and to be yearly bestowed by the said mayor, aldermen, and common council in repairing the said tenements called the White-Rents, and in fuel, or other charitable relief, for and amongst the poor aged people that should dwell in the said almshouses.' Report of Charity Commissioners, 1815-1835. Probably the money obtained as a result of the order passed 14 October 1707. v. supra. which happened in Fryer-lane And the said money was now delivered to Dr Dodsley for the purpose aforesaid. 3474 fo. 8. Memorandum this day Mr Mayor brought into ye Hall what Mayors Books were putt into John Towns Bag except those which are now att London.1 3474 fo. 8. 5 1707. Tuesday December 23. ΙΟ Fires. Whereas this Town of Nottingham has suffered and is in great danger to suffer very much by Fires occasioned by the Bakers keeping stacks of Gorse in their Yards and Place within this Town To prevent the same therefore for the future Itt is Ordered That no Baker in the Town of Nottingham doe from henceforth keep in his 10 Yard Outhouses or Places above one Load of Gorse att one time for his present Use and so from time to time which Load he shall take care to secure in the best manner he can but that every such Baker shall lay his Gorse upon the Wasts att the Outsides of the Town as near his respective dwelling house as he can so as itt be 15 Thirty yards distant from any building in Nottingham. Upon pain that every Baker doing contrary to this Order shall pay to the Mayor and Burgesses for the use of the poor the summe of Ten shillings for every Offence. And itt is agreed That this Order be made publick by the Common-Cryer. 3474 fo. 10a. 20 The Fire Engines.-Itt is this day Ordered That both the Fireengines be repaired and putt in good Order by some Ingenious person att the Towns Charge. 3474 fo. Ioa. 1707-8. Monday January 19. Memorandum this day Mr Greens Lease of the Coppice King Charles Grant about the Woods and six papers relating to the same 25 were delivered into the hands of Mr John Town in order to take advice about the suite now begun by the Earle of Chesterfield against Mr Benjamin Green and others. 3474 fo. Iob. 1707-8. Wednesday February 11. The Free School. The question being putt whether or no that part of the School house next to Barker gate shall be new built Itt 30 was Carryed in the Affirmative And itt is ordered That Mr William Johnson be employed to take care to survey itt assoon as may and to give in an Estimate of the Charge to this Corporacion. The books had been sent to London owing to a suit between the Mayor and 3474 fo. II. Mr. Coroner Green. John Town was 1708. Wednesday April 14. French Expedition in favour of the Pretender.-Memorandum this Day Itt was agreed That an Addresse be presented to her Majesty from this Corporacion to assure her of their Detestacion of the late designed Invasion and that they will stand by 5 her Majesty and the Protestant succession with their Lives and Fortunes against the Pretender and all opposers whatsoever And that the Right Noble the Recorder be desired to present the 3474 fo. 13. same. 1708. Thursday May 27. The Free School.-Ordered that Mr William Greaves, Mr 10 Alderman Barke Mr Alderman Shipman, Mr Dodsley, Mr Partridge and who else think fitt doe meet and view what Trees are fitt to be cutt down in the Coppice towards Building the School House and that they take Mr William Johnson along with 'em. 15 1708. Wednesday June 23. 3474 fo. 13a. Ordered That Mr Chamberlain Tibson doe goe on with the Pavement against St Peters Church Yard from the staires to the Rowell as soon as conveniently he can. 1708. Wednesday July 7. 3474 fo. 14b. The Pinder's Fee.-Ordered That Mr Alderman Salmon, Mr Alderman Barke, Mr John Greaves, Mr Partridge, Mr Collin, Mr 20 William Greaves, Mr Hoyland and as many as please doe meet and view the Pinders Fee in order to survey the same and ascertain the Buttalls and Boundalls. The year after the Union, the discontent of the Scots encouraged Louis to attempt to stir up a Jacobite rebellion in Scotland. The plan was well laid, and intrusted to Forbin, the best of the French sailors. He was to take the Pretender on board at Dunkirk and land him with 4000 men, on the shore of the Firth of Forth, when it was hoped that the English garrison of 1700 men would be easily beaten, and that the country would rise eagerly in the Pretender's favour. How 3474 fo. 14c. ever, the expedition was kept waiting a week while the young prince was laid up with the measles; and before it sailed the Government had been warned. Accordingly, Byng, with 16 ships, was close on the heels of Forbin's 5. Against such overwhelming odds Forbin could do nothing; and when Byng overtook him off the Firth of Forth he was glad to escape with the loss of only one ship, and to bring the Pretender safely home again.' Ransome History of England, p. 718. 1708. Thursday July 22. The Town Plate.-Ordered That the Chamberlaines doe pay Mr Fetherston five pounds as usuall towards the Town-Plate And that Mr Mayor be steward and receive the Entrance money and pay the same to Mr Fetherston he giving a Note to repay it with Interest the next yeare to the succeeding steward. 1708. Wednesday August 4. 3474 fo. 15. 5 The Free School.-Memorandum this day Mr Johnson the Schoolmasters proposall of his keeping two Ushers in the Free School for the old Sallary of Thirty pounds per Annum was considered of And this house are all of them content with the said proposall and approve of the same as thinking itt will tend much to the Advantage 10 and Improvement of the said School And doe therefore order That the said Mr Johnson doe pitch and agree upon two such persons to be Ushers as he shall think fitt and the same are to continue during the pleasure of this Corporacion And there to be allowed only Thirty pounds per Annum for both the said Ushers. 3474 fo. 15a. 15 1708. Friday August 27. The Town Waits.-Memorandum this day Thomas Harryson was Admitted and sworn one of the Towns Waites in the room of John Clayton who has left the Town. 1708. Tuesday October 26. Corporation Property in London.-Ordered1 That this Corporacions Lands att London be sold to the best Chapman by 20 reason they are so scituated That no good Tennants will take them for want of which this Corporacion have lost their Rents for severall Yeares last past And 'tis further ordered That Mr Robie Sherwin doe dispose of the same And that notice be given in the Gazett accordingly. 3475 fo. 5. 25 The question being putt what this Corporacion shall allow Widdow Oakland towards the Losse she lately sustained by her Waggons being Impressed for her Majestyes service Itt was carryed That the Chamberlain doe pay her eight pounds And itt is further ordered That Mr Alderman Smith be desired to go to Mountsorrell 30 about the Waggon which is detained there and make the best This order was repeated on Friday, 11 February 1708/9. |