COL. HASTINGS VERY PRESSING FOR SUBSISTE~CE FOR HIS REGIMENT. 219
Ordered, that the Mayor for the ensueing year be allowed 200 pounds for his table out of the public revenue of this City. That Ald. Dunscombe, Mr. Patrick Ronaine, and Mr. Jonathan Perry, Chamberlain, or any two of them, do view the farm of Tho. Polly, N. Suburbs, and report what rent he shall pay yearly, and for what term. That the Mayor receive the rents of this Corporation until this Michrel- mas, and then pass his account before Sr Math. Deane, Kt., Ald. Dunscombe, .Ald. Newenham, Sher. Roberts, or any three of them, who are to report thereof at the next Council. Present-The Mayor; Mayor elect, Sir Math. Deane; Alden. Newenham, Wright, Bayly, Webber; Sher. Roberts, Mr. Ronaine, Mr. Walker, Mr. Perry, Mr. Terry. 5 Oct., 1691. Ordered, that Mr. James Flack be admitted a freeman paying 10 pounds, and to be free of petty duties from the day of his being sworn. That William Sealy be sworn free. · That Ald. Rogers have power under the City seal to recover from the Vintners of London what money shall be due unto the Almes-house of this ~ity, and for what money he hath already in his hands to give his note to pay same when required by this Corporation. Said money is 90 pounds, or thereabout. Present-The Mayor, Sr Mathew Deane; Ald. Dunscombe, Mayor elect; Alden. Wright, Tuckey; Sher. Roberts, Mr. Ronaine, Mr. Walker, Mr. Wills, Mr. Chartres, Ald. Bayly. 19 Oct., 1691. Whereas Col Hastings is very pressing for subsistance from this Corpo- ration for his regiment, to that height that it hath been offered by him that if his soldiers take a loose and commit any violence in this town for want thereof he cannot help it, and as the revenue is at present very small, and not able to defray the public charge, the only ready expedient that can be found for preventing the mischief that may ensue by neglecting to subsist said regiment, we propose to be the loan of money from the able inhabitants, according to the present list, to be lent to Col Hastings, who promises, on his honour, or by any other security, to repay same out of the first money he shall receive for his regiment. 28-2
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