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without the borough and apprenticed therein, should pay 18d. on being 
made free, and no more. All others admitted to the freedom to pay ten 
shillings. — W.B. 
Order made in 1566, '* Mr. Mayor willeth and requireth" that all 
persons who had received alien servants within the space of one year 
were to discharge them within a month, on penalty of ten shillings per 
month fine. — W.B. 
In the same year there appears the first of a series of orders made 
with regard to the sale of pilchards, then a most important article of 
local diet and trade. No alien was to lade or buy fresh pilchards above 
the number of 1,000 in one day ; no man, not being free, to buy or sell 
above 5,000. In Drake's mayoralty it was ordered that any person 
suspected of selling or promising to deliver pilchards before they were 
saved, or of having received money beforehand from any non-inhabitant 
to make [cure] the same, should be called before the mayor and questioned 
thereon on oath, and if guilty, not allowed to make any pilchards that 
year. No woman, whether wife, widow, or servant, was to set or make 
a price for or upon any pilchards brought into the town, under penalty 
of ten shillings fine (to be paid by the husband or master, if no widow) 
and personal punishment at the mayor's discretion. In 1584 a more 
stringent order to the latter effect was made, including hake, but allowing 
women to make provision for any household. Persons bringing hake to 
the town were to sell to every freeman equally some indifferent portion. 
W.B. 
1566- 67 127. Jn° Ilcomb. 
Fine for refusing the mayoralty raised to £20. 
September 17th, 1567, John Ford released and disburdened of office 
of mayor from Lambert' s-day, 1568. — W.B. 
1567- 68 128. W m Hawkings [Hawkyns]. 
Margaret Edwards, late wife of Henry Edwards, ordered to leave the 
town. Not to return on pain of whipping or other punishment. There 
are several entries of the banishment of " vagabones." 
" In this yeare the waches on mydsomer nyght was renewyed w ch had 
not beene vsyd in xx li yeares before that tyme." — B.B. 
Orders made for the good keeping of Sutton Pool. — W.B. 
1568- 69 129. Lucas Cock [Cocke]. 
Cock was released, discharged, and disburdened, September 22nd, 1568, 
of the office of mayor, at the expiration of his mayoralty, for ever. — B.B. 
There are other similar resolutions. 
On the presentment of the Grand Jury, 1568, order made that persons 
damaging or destroying hedges or fences within the Liberty should be 
placed in the stocks three market-days. — W.B. 
Ordered that no burgess [member] be chosen, but " onelie suche men 
as be toune dwellers and the counsel! of the toune." In 1601 it was 
ordered that one should be a freeman. — W.B. 
1569- 70 130. Jn? Martin [Marty n]. 
The new conduit built by W m Hawkings. 
