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with all speed at the city charge ; 300 carts- of stones to be bought, of 

 Mr. Wyekon, of Glasnethen (Glasnevin), at 20 pence the cart. 



The new pommel and cross newly set on the King's sword, daily carried Mayor's 

 before the mayor, weighing 22 ounces, pure silver, at seven shillings per ounce, 

 for gilding, workmanship, &e., amounts to £7 15s. Qd. This sum to be paid 

 out of money in the hands of Mr. Taylor and Mr. Brice. 



fol. 113^. 4th August, 1609. ... 



The mayor to have twenty nobles, English, for his charges in riding the Riding thg , 

 franchises. To be ridden next month. franchises. 



fol. 115. 4th December, 1610. 



The charge of Philip Eowley lately infected, and now shut up in a cabin, Plague. 

 to be borne by the city ; also the charge of the men who watched him. £5 

 to be paid by the treasurer by concordatum to Nich. Allen, tallow chandler, 

 deputy alderman of that ward, to disburse and account. The mayor to cause 

 the master of the barber surgeons to send two sufficient of their company 

 with Mr. John Bowth to survey Eowley's body, and certify what they find, so 

 that a course may be taken to discharge him. 



fol. 116\ 4th December, 1610. 



■ The Mayor, Sir John Terrell, Mr. Sedgrave, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Weston, Committee 



Mr. Burran, Mr. Handcock, Mr. Cusake, and Mr. M alone, to meet on Thursdays „ "" i'-^^'^ *° 



•' rarliament. 



and Tuesdays weekly, to consider what is meet to be provided in Parliament 

 for the good of the city; and having agreed, to send propositions to the 

 recorder to draw up Acts of Parliament to be sent into England. 



fol. 116^. 7th January, 1611. 



Sir John Tirell, Matthew Handcock, and Edmond Malone, aldermen, to Present to 

 make choice (on the city's behalf) of a butt of principal sack, two hogsheads of I^eputj-. 



Gascon wine, and 40 lbs. weight of good white sugar, in small loaves, at the 

 cheapest rate they can, to be paid by the city, to be presented by them to the 

 Lord Deputy against the wedding of his lordship's daughter, now in hand, in 

 acknowledgment of his furtherance of city affairs. 



[In margin.] The butt of sack cost Mr. Allen £16, wine £10, sugar bought 

 in the common cellar, 22 pence per lb., £3 13s. 4d Sum, £29 13s. M. ; for 

 carriage, 2s. %d, 



fol.in\ .. _ 19th April, 1611. 



The recorder obtained execution against the city out of the Common Pleas Claim 

 for what remains due to him from the time he was an. agent for the city in ^S*""^* '"ty- 

 England^. ..Cessers. who laid down the. cess for this .shall. .take„.acco_unljif_tlie 

 whole £300, and certify disbursements ; also in whose hands any of said sums 



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