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a dinner was held, the whole body of Freemen did not partake of 
this, but only the then Jury. 
1676. “To Mris Hickes man for wines ex- 
pended ye 5th of November 1676 00 — 10 —o0” 
In March 1677, the M. B. records that “Wm. Burford” 
(who had long been the Town drummer) “ bids twenty 
shillings for a tenem’ called the three swanns.” At the same 
meeting Mr. Walter Hickes ‘‘ bids ten shillings for a Lease in a 
Messuage or Inn called the Katherine Wheel and one little 
tenem‘ on the north side.” Possibly in 1677 the issuer and her 
son removed from Cheap Street to Northgate Street. 
On the 2oth of December 1678, Walter Hickes was elected an 
Alderman. In October 1679, John Masters then Mayor, the 
entry appears in the M. B., “Whether Mr Alderman Hickes 
shall be displased of his Aldermanship and likewise out of the 
Councill for speaking scandalous words ag* his royall Highness 
the Duke of Yorke (afterwards James 2nd) Agreed by Generall 
consent that Mr. Hickes shall be displased from being an 
Alderman and likewise displased out the Councill.” He was 
reinstated on the 28th of June, 1680, the M. B. then noting, 
“Mr. Walter Hickes being formerly displaced from being an 
Alderman whether he shall be restored to his place again 
Agreed he shall be an Alderman again if the Charter will bear it 
out.” The next meeting of the Council he duly attended as an 
Alderman. 
In 1694 Walter Hickes took a new “ Lease of the Katherine 
Wheel in Northgate Street. 
WILL* BATH 
22. Ig . OQ: RICHARD + HORLER=The Tallowchandlers 
Arms 
Rise SNe barn + 1664 = <R shes 
The issuer of this Token carried on business in Southgate 
Street. He was not a member of the Council and left the City 
to live at Englishcombe, 
