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MASTER AND WARDENS OF THE GUILD OF WHOLESALE MERCHANTS.
and that none shall be admitted except such who take oaths according to law ; and from time to time all free1nen at large trading and inhabiting within this City, except such who are free at large, and free of any other petty Corporation, as butchers, masons, &c. And that the Master and Wardens appointed by the grant be Sir Mathew Deane, Master; Alderman John Newenham and Ald. Robert Rogers, Wardens; and that the Aldermen and Common Council, and all freemen that are wholesale and retayling merchants, be first named in the grant to incorporate the Society. Ordered, that Edmond Knap be admitted a freeman as the Mayor's free- man, to continue no longer than he is an inhabitant of this City, and that neither said Knap, nor any other person lately made free have the benefit as freeman till after 29 Sept. next. Present-Mayor; Mayor elect, Sr Mathew Deane; Alden. Dunscombe, Newenham, Tuckey, Bayly; Mr. Ronaine, Mr. Hovell, Mr. Walker, Sher. Roberts, Sher. Greene, Ald. Rogers. 4 Sep., 1691. Whereas the Charter for retayling merchants has been this day read, with the bye-laws of same, and both approved of, ordered, that they be in- grossed by the Town Clerk, in order to be signed by the Mayor. Ordered, that the Gallery for the Mayor and Aldermen in Christ Church be rebuilt at the proper cost of said Mayor, &c., Ald. Tuckey, Sher. Roberts, and Mr. Perry to be overseers. Present--The Mayor; Mayor elect, Sir Math. Deane; Ald. Dunscombe, Recorder; Alden. Newenham, Mill, Wright, Bayly, Tuckey, Webber; Sher. Roberts, Mr. Ronaine, Mr. Walker. At an Assembly of Common Council held at the Mayor's house 29 Sep., 1691. Upon application of Joseph Franklin and William Masters for their freedom, ordered, that they be admitted, provided they appear in their Armes, according to the former custom. Ordered, that the Customs of the Gates be set from this day for a year all freemen to pay as foreigners ; the Gateage and Wat.er Bailiff's office to be set by public Cant on Thursday next.
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