Bmuiy—The ''Friday Book;' 1567-1611. 487 



£4 10s. to be bestowed in boards and other necessaries for furnishing same, 

 , the mayor to compel them to resort thither for sale of their fish. Nevertheless 

 such free fishers as now dwell in the Fish Street to have liberty to sell their 

 fish at their own standings or stalls, as long as same be not thought hurtful 

 to the market by the mayor. Other fishers who henceforth shall dwell in 

 said street to be forced to bring their fish to said shambles to be sold. ' "- 



Unfree fishers that come to the market to be compelled to sell their fish 

 below the freemen in the place. 



fol. 22<'. ' 29th November, 1588. 



The school-house of the city is disfurnished, nnd wants seats and other city school- 

 necessaries ; £5 to be bestowed for same. house. 



fol. 22^. ■ 29th November, 1588. 



The drummer, trumpeter, and gunners, having allowance of gowns from Liyg^y ^nd 

 the city, often attended in cloaks of divers colours, which was unseemly, and hadges, 

 as the mayor had never given cloaks to them with badges by which they and runners, 

 might be known to belong to the city, it is ordered that same cloaks be 

 counted as parcel of their said livery, containing each 2J yards, the overplus 

 to be given them in money or in cloth. The badges (in number six) cost 

 44 shillings, with two badges more that are set over a cassock, to serve for a 

 messenger or footman to attend on the city. The cost to be borne on the city 

 revenues. 



[In margin.] This was granted by an Assembly. 



\_This wliole entry is scored out.] 



■■ fol. ^3\ 29th November, 1588. 



Por the "risings out" of the constables in their several wards on causes. Constables' 

 concerning their offices, they should carry staves by which they may be staves, 

 known. It is thought fit the charge of the staves should be borne not by the 

 ■ treasurer, but by the inhabitants in their wards. The number of staves 

 forty-one, with the Queen's arms and the arms of the city in gold, and three 

 , other staves with like arms in silver. 



fol. 23^. [Here are given the names of the constables who have had staves 

 delivered to them.] 



fol. W. 28th February, 1589. 



The mayor to give his warrant to the treasurer of the city for payment of Gunpowder, 

 ,£10 stg, to Robert Poyntor, master gunner : he shall also have for one day a 

 labouring man out of every house in the city and suburbs that is thought able 

 'to bea:r the same, to labour as lie shall direct, for finding out of saltpetre and 



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