0~ E OF TilE SEUJ.EA.NTS AT MACE WOU~DED I~ EXEClJTIOX OF HIS DliTY. 307
17 April, 1732. Thomas Pembrock was sworn one of the Council. That Ald 0
• Morley and Bennett do treat with Rich d. Norman and Thomas
:Afitchell about casting the Court-house Bell, nnd report That Richard Andrews be paid £1 198., half-year's sallary as Capt. of H a l berteers. That Ald. Bennett, Mr. Sheriff Travers, ~fr. Croker, Pembrocke, and Com. Speaker do view the ground next S. Paul's Church, and report whether the ground appointed for a Church yard be sufficient for that purpose, and how far same might be made more convenient. That Mr. Wm. Clarke be paid £2 68. 11d. for two silver boxes in which Thomas Prior, Esq., and Rt. Hon. M. Coghill were presented with their free- doms, and for mending a mace. That Richard Daxon, having served Mr. Sheriff Travers, be admitted free. Thomas Keating, one of the Sergeants at ~face, having been desperately wounded in the execution of his office, and thereby reduced in his health and substance, ordered, that four pound be paid him to help to support and cure him.
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William Harding, having served part of his apprentiship to Mr. Will. Roberts, dec., and the rest to Roberts' Widow, ordered, that he be admitted free. That Richard, eldest son of Francis Rowland, dec., Newenham Crone, Esq., Council at Law, and Jonathan Winthropp, having served Henry Fitz- Gerald, be admitted free. That the Rev. Thomas Blenerhassett be paid .£30, a year and half's sallary / as Chaplain to this Corporation. • / • Ordered, that for the future the Corporation do not employ any Chaplain. f /r' 1 Present--Mr. Mayor, two Sheriffs ; Alden. Allen, French, Morley, Terry, Broclesby, Bennett, Cramer, Atkins, Millerd; M.r. Croker, Fuller, Pembrock, Owgan, Com. Speaker. 19 April, 1732. The Council being apprehensive that several leases formerly set by the Corporation are expired, and Mr. Hignett, late Com. Speaker, being dead, by which the Common Speaker's key is either lost or mislaid, ordered, that 64-2
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