The records of the borough of Northampton Volume 1 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...& aliam meditatem ad opus ville maiori qui p tempe fuit litabunt &c Ordinacio Fact Pro Porcis Tempe Rici Wemmes Maioris Anno Rr Henrici Quinti anyone of the aforesaid craft staying in the aforesaid town of Northampton shall not come at the summons of the aforesaid masters or any one of them or any other deputy of theirs at the certain times days and places assigned to him within the liberty of the same town then it may be lawful to the said masters concerning the man so summoned and not coming as often as he shall contravene this ordinance to receive and levy for his contempt one pound of wax of which they shall dispose one moiety to the torches aforesaid and the other moiety they shall deliver for the work of the town to the mayor for the time being &c Ordinance Made For Pigs In The Time Of Richd Wemmes318 Mayor In The 9"' & lo Years Of The Reign Of Henry V Chapter Lxiiii The Friday next after the feast of Saint Gregory Friday, I5th March, 1381 in the fourth year of the reign of Richard the 2nd since the conquest in the time of Simon Daventre219 then mayor At a congregation held the at the same church of Saint Giles Ji the following ordinance was he made by general consent and proclamation that no one send his pigs into the streets within ix & x Capitulo Lxiiij Die venvis px poft feftum Sci Gregorij Anno regni Regis Rici fecundi poft conqueftum quarto tempe Simonis Daventre tunc maioris Congregatone habita ad Ecdiam Sci Egidij ii5m tunc ordinatum fuit ex coi aflfenfu & pclamat? qd nullus dimitteret porcos fuos in vijs infra fyne for at a Richard Wemmes, or Wemys. was mayor of the town in 1421-2. Richard Wennys was member for the town at the parliament held I2th Henry IV. n Simon Daventre in 1380-1, 1386-7, and 1390-1. villam ex...