230 THE MAYORALTY OF TRURO. 



adds that his father "was a man to raise him and lie liath not 

 done anything that I can hear, for any of ns." The latter of the 

 two mayors to whom reference has been made was Richard Hill. 

 During his mayoralty in 1631, Williams' Almshonses and 

 Hospital were erected, as may he seen from an inscription on a 

 stone in the wall of the Almshouses facing Pydar Street. 



The record of another mayor, contemporary with these, is 

 preserved on a brass Avhich was formerly in St. Mary's Church, 

 and is now in the Cathedral — that of Cuthbert Sydenham, 

 woollen draper, who was mayor in 1627, and died three years 

 later. 



In 1674, when certain structural alterations and improve- 

 ments were being effected in the church, the Corporation resolved 

 as follows: — '' 30 Oct., 1674. It is ordered and agreed that Mr. 

 Robt. Avery the p'sent major doe send for soemuch veluett as 

 will make a Coushing to sett in his seate in the Curch and the 

 charges thereof shalbe allowed on his acct. and that he alsoe 

 erect a Cheere and a Raill with a deske in the Comon Hall on 

 the Bench, and the king's Armes over his head in said Hall if it 

 may be conueniently done." Two years later, the Capital 

 Burgesses, indignant at Avery's failure to j)resent a satisfactory 

 account of his mayoral expenses, resolved that "ffor as much as 

 Mr. Robert Avevy did vndertake and promise to bring in a pfect 

 his account this present day (22 March 1676) as Mayor of the sd 

 Borough, and made default As many tymes heretofore he hath 

 Donne, Wee whose names are Subscribed doe order and direct 

 that the sd Mr. Avery by all Lawful! wayes and meanes bee 

 psecuted for the puosinge ( sic) pf ectinge and ballancinge of the 

 same And that M'- ffoote the Town Clarke forthwith doe the 

 same." Then follow the names of eleven Burgesses, the first 

 being that of '' Nic. Sanders, Major." 



Mr. Avery's conduct led to the discussion of means by which 

 such irregularities might be prevented in the future ; the result 

 being that in 1678 the Corporation determined to appoint 

 stewards who should relieve the mayor of his financial duties, 

 and the following resolution, though opposed by Mr. Avery and 

 his friends, was accordingly passed : " Wee doe hereby constitute 

 and ordeyne that from henceforth, the Mayor for the tyme being- 

 after the expiracon of the office of the p'sent m'' Mayor shall not 



