f 85 (20 April)
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| The Race Cupp | Item that the Cittie shall yearlie provide a Cupp of the value of xxiiij li.
to bee rann for att the race in |
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Record title: Ordinance Book
Repository:
HRO
Shelfmark: W/B1/4
Repository location: Winchester
The ordinance books contain ordinances dealing with the
election of officials, granting of leases, and (again) regulations to do
with trade and health. These books also include elections to membership
of the Merchants' guild and incorporation of various other guilds, such
as the Fishmongers' and the Tailors' and Hosiers'. These books can be
seen as the official register of decisions made at the general
assemblies, the boroughmotes, held twice a year in either the guildhall or in St John's House and attended by the
mayor, the twenty-four, other freemen of the Merchants' guild and –
supposedly – the commonalty, although it is doubtful whether the
ordinary citizen had any formal say by this date or was even present,
whatever may have been the case earlier. Many are ratifications of
decisions already made at the more frequent meetings of the mayor and
his brethren and initially recorded in the Proceedings Books. As the
ordinances were amended or cancelled a marginal entry to that effect has
been added.
1617–47; English and Latin; paper; i + 170 + i, f 14 missing; 298mm x 192mm; contemporary foliation; contemporary brown suede leather binding, gold tooled title on spine: 'Fourth Book of Ordinances.'