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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Freemen to pay 10s. a year licence for selling wine; unfree, 20s. — W.B. 
Fine for refusing the office of mayor raised to £40. — W.B. 
1570- 7 1 131. Gregory Cock. 
The plague in plymouth. 
Order in 1571 that all feasts and banquets should be utterly done 
away. No mayor to keep any. Six years to elapse instead of four 
before a mayor could be re-elected. — W.B. In 1597 this was increased 
to eight years. — W.B. 
1571- 72 132. W™ Hallowy [Holowaye] \_Eollowaye], 
Every person who sold London beer to pay 6d. (?) per hogshead ; 
none to be sold above 4d. a quart. — W.B. 
1572- 73 133. Jn? Blyman [Blythman]. 
The free school of plym? built, as also the key 
on South side from the Barbican northward, under 
full sea mark; In length 130 foot and In breadth 44. 
Ordered that every person should aid the constables as required. Every 
inhabitant to have in some convenient place in his house a good black 
bill or a clubbe to find in any time of strife, upon penalty of 3s. 4d. — W.B. 
Each of the twelve to provide himself with a decent scarlet gown 
within one year after his election, on penalty of 40s. — W.B. 
1573- 74 134. W™ Brooking [Brokynge]. 
1574- 75 135. Jn? Amadis [Amadas]. 
1575- 76 136. Walter Peprill [Peperell] [Pepper ell or PepelT], 
1575. Ordered that no one buy wine, commodities, or merchandise, 
coming to the town by water, without having made the mayor privy 
thereto, in order that, if desired, the mayor and his brethren might buy 
for the town. If so bought, every freeman was to take the share of 
such goods apportioned him. — W.B. 
Walter Deeble disfranchised for sundry misdemeanours ; not to be 
admitted again until he paid £5. — W.B. 
1576- 77 137. Jn° Ilcomb [Ilcombe, sen.]. 
S r francis Drake departs plym 0 on his voyage 
about y e earth. Nov: 13. 1577. 
1577- 78 138. Gregory Maynard [George Maynard] [Maynarde]. 
Francis Earl of Bedford, and his Countes. y e Erl 
of Northumberland , L d Nor rice, L d Wharton &c came 
to plym 0 and were honorably received at the towns 
cost. 
1578- 79 139. W m Hawkins [Hawkyns]. 
Brother of Sir John Hawkins, himself a sea captain. 
1579- 80 140. Gregory Cock [Cocke]. 
Nov 3 1580. S r francis Braize Returns from his 
voyage, was wanting 2 yeares & J. brought great 
