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THE CITY. WALLS BELONG TO THE CROWN.
29 Oct., 1717. Put to the question, whether Mr.Will. Masters should give up the lease of the Lough, and if he do not, that the Corporation order their attorney to sue for an injunction. Carried, to sue for an injunction if he does not deliver it up. That the Revd. Mr. Henry Maul, or such other as become bail for Mr. Saml. Woodrufe in the prosecution of Mr. Jn. Hamon, be indemnified.- Abra. French, Mayor. Present-Abra. French, Esq., Mr. Cottrell and Hawkins, Sheriffs ; Alden. Crone, Whiteing, Delahoide, Hoare, Phillips, Perdrian; Mr. Walker, Masters, Morrison, Browne, Con1. Speaker. 26 Nov., 17! 7. On reading the petition presented by Moses Deane to the Government, about part of the Town Walls near his buildings in Cockpit-lane, ordered, that the Mayor write to the Recorder to inform him that the City Walls belong to the Crown, that the City is obliged to repair them, that the ground on which they are built belongs to the Corporation, and that the building such a quay as Mr. Dean proposes would ruin the City by turning the way through the City to the said intended quay, and that Mr. Deane has put up a gate frame at the end of said lane next to the walls, in order to make a property of that passaga That l\1r. Saml. Woodrufe do make up a wail at the left hand going out of Cockpit-lane, next the town walls, as Mr. Mayor shall direct, and that the Mayor do order the rubbage laid out by the Town Walls by Mr. Moses Deane to be carried away. That Mr. Wm. Lenox be admitted free paying 5 pounds. Present -1\-fr. Mayor; Sher. Hawkins and Cottrell; Alden. Crone, Whiteing, Francklyn, Hoare, Browne, Lambley; Mr. Walker, Masters, Wil- son, Browne, Com. Speaker. 15 Jan., 1717. That John, son of Francis Burnet, be admitted one of the Blue Boys at S. Stephen's Hospital, on the recommendation of Mr. Baron Worth. That Daniel Harrington be likewise admitted, recomm~nded by Ald. Nob. Rogers.
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