GENERAL INDEX
aldermen 1600 powers etc. —can imprison disorderly persons 17 —ensure men have access to weapons 17 —responsible for street cleaning 17 ¿confirmed (1657) 46 1624 new appointees to bring in their plate or be fined 37 1681 listed according to seniority 74 1791 refused to be sworn into office 105 apprenticeships duration must be 7 or more years 46 indentures —to be entered in town records (1657) 46 —various recorded 24–27,64,65 bourgasse/burgadge [‘burgage’, a long town plot with narrow front] 11,12 burgesses 1668 two request retirement due to age 64 1681 listed according to seniority 74 1690 one elected against mayor’s wishes 76 butlers [weapons? soldiers?] 5 church (St Nicholas) 1575 donations for, (see finances/audits) 7 1590 deputy appointed to collect tithes 12 1678 —clock and dial set up 63 —mort. clothes delivered to 63 —sword and standard inside refurbished 66 coram [‘before’] see records of assembly 1–17 court agreements etc. recorded —1574 property from Thomas Lugge by estreat returned to grandson John 106 —1592 lease of land (incomplete record) 12 —1598 sale of an interest in mills lying outside the West Gate 106 —1613 exchange of land & money for half share in house etc 35 —1635 ¿lease houses in West Street 109 ¿lease plot west side Cheston’s Lane 109 ¿settlement of property on son on occasion of his marriage 106 —1638 property in trust for daughter on her marriage, & his other children 106 —1643 sale many tracts of land for £400 106 —1650 lease of 300 acres, rent to be abated if war prevents profits 106
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—1652 above lease re-assigned with consent of landlord 106 —1656 discharge of a mortgage 45 —1657 sale of various tracts of land for £185 106 —1661 lease of tenements 109 —1662 ¿deed of feoffment in trust for wife and daughters 106 ¿quit for ever any claim against the corporation 51 —1664 letter of attorney regarding lands in co. Westmeath 52 —1666 ¿deposition regarding money paid in 1650 for a widow & her children 55 ¿unsuccessful attempt by town to seize property to cover unpaid rent 55 ¿bond for £100 56 —1667 bond for £120 59 —1669 lease of house 110 — . . . . sale of two parcels of land 110 —1671 ¿bonds for money left to the poor ·£20 by John Matthews 67 ·£6 by Richard Johnston 67 —1677 settlement of various properties on son 110 —1678 bond for £115 10s 78 —1683 deed of conveyance 110 —1720 release of bond for £70 87 —1740 bond for £100 111 cases before —1569 cullerably defrauded HM Customs and town 1 —1575 disobedience, contempt and misdemenour 6 —1576 sellery, and false conspiracy of death 9 —1580 uncertain, perhaps debt 11 —1581 false claim over quarter bourgasse 11 —1599 controversy over inherited house 15 —1614 offences in exercise of office of Sheriff 35 —1650 failure of lessor to sign lease despite being paid 43 —1665 incursion of buildings unto land 53 —1666 incursion of wall unto land 54 —1667 fences: occupier maintains head and right-hand ones 59 —1668 common battery 67
