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Proceedings ot the Royal Irish Acnieinii. 



Friday 

 meetins 



College cora- 

 menceraents. 



Cessing of 

 soldiers on 

 aldermen. 



Aldermen 

 and cessing 

 of soldiers. 



thought gi-eat time and charges will attend it. He to have £20 English, 

 and£30 like money for his charges/ for which £.10 he shall account. The 

 agreement as to Eobert Ball going to be void. Should Hamling have to stay 

 in England above six months, he to have at the rate of £20 every six months ; 

 and, if less, to have £20, without any account. 



fol. 91/". 7th October, 1608. 



The Friday meeting of aldermen to be continued as in the first order in 

 this Book laid down ; and every alderman failing to be present a quarter of 

 an hour after S o'clock to pay fines in the former order, for default. 



fol. H\ 



Commencements will be held at College about Thursday next, which may 

 hinder the keeping of the assembly. The Quarter Day shall be held on 

 Thursday, 20th October, and the General Assembly on Friday next day ; 

 and Brothei-s' Assembly, on Monday, ITih October. 



fol. 95\ 27th October, 1608. 



Friday next, being a holy apostle day, the first assembly put off till Friday, 

 seventeenth next. (Xot signed.) 



fol. 95^. 10th Xovember, 1608. 



A petition to the mayor and aldermen by the master of the carpenters as 

 to cessing of soldiei-s, that the aldermen shoidd bear the cess, for then the 

 sherife and sheriffs' peers would bear it. Certain commons were called in, 

 among them Xieholas Browne, baker, who seemed fully of opinion that the 

 aldermen should be free of soldiers, and that the sheriffs and sheriffs' peers, 

 being of the Forty-eight, should bear this with the commons. Nevertheless, 

 Browne, forgetful of his duty, tried to raise a mutiny and work with the rest 

 of the masters of the Corporations to oppose themselves against the aldermen. 

 Browne to be committed to Xewgate by the mayor during his pleasure. 



[fd. 96^ hlwiik.'] 



fol. 9&>. 11th Xovember, 1608. 



Edward Thomas, Laurence White, Eichard Ashe, John Goodwing, 

 William Tumor, Nicholas Stephens, Peter Dermot, John Beanes, Eichard 

 Browne, Edmond Malone, Thomas Eustace, Walter Britt, and Xieholas Browne, 

 baker, did on 9th April, 1608, unlawfully combine under their hands (except 

 Walter Britt and Xich. Browne who did not subscribe) of ambitious desire 

 to insult the government of the privy council of the city being the mayor and 

 aldermen (the Twenty-four), who, in consideration of their daily attendance 

 on the mayor, &c., were in the assembly held to be free of bearing of soldiers. 



