a Gaol attached to the Court of Record, the Mayor to be the Keeper thereof. the Corpora poses as in any other Court of Record in any other Burrough or Town Incorporate within Our said Kingdom of England is used and as in the same Burrough of Saint Ives at any time heretofore was used and accustomed or could or ought to be done and Power to hold also that the said Mayor and Burgesses and their successours for ever shall have within the Burrough aforesaid a Prison and Goale and the keeping of all Prisoners atached or to be atached or to the said Prison or Goall adjudged so long as and untill according to the Laws and Customs of Our Kingdom of England they shall be delivered And that the Mayor of the Burrough aforesaid for the time being shall and may be Keeper of the said Goalle to all intents and purposes as antiently was used and Confirmation accustomed in the said Burrough moreover we have granted and of the grant of Waste Lands confirmed and in and by these Presents of Us Our heirs and within the successours Do Give grant and Confirm unto the said Mayor and Borough to the use of the Burgesses of the said Burrow and their sucessors of the Burrough Corporation. aforesaid All Our Commons and Wastes within the precincts of Confirmation the same Burrough and all and all manner and singular so many of the grant to such and the same and those Mannors Messuages Lands tenetion of their ments Rents arrearages of rents Services hereditaments Goods Messuages and heredita- chattles Courts of Record perquisites of Courts Assise of Bread ments, and all and Beer and Prison within the said Burrough and the keeping perquisites of the said Prison Goods and chattles of all fellons fugitives Power to hold fellons of themselves waved or derelict jurisdiction prescriptions fairs marketts Leets View of Ffrank Pledge return of Writs Fines Mercements Tolls Thealon of tolls and Customes of Marketts for all and all manner of Grain and other commodities within the said Burrough and the liberties and precincts of the same to be brought in or sold only in publick faires and marketts but also every other day of the weeke there to be delivered customs priviledges franchises Treasure Trove and Deodands whatsoever within the Burrough aforesaid happening or coming and also all immunities clearings exemptions offices profits and incomes of Keyadge and Customs and water duties for Tonnage Quay Dues, lestage keelage and groundage of all ships and merchandises there comeing and customs or dues for herrings or any other Fish there taken sold or exported and all manner of offices demands or rights whatsoever in as large manner and form and to all intents and purposes whatsoever as many as much such and such like and which the said Mayor and Burgesses of the Burrough aforesaid in any time or times past or which their predecessours or any or either of them have received to be taken for the support and maintainance of the Port Key or Warfe and other charges of the Burrough aforesaid as well of the inhabitants thereof. Assize of Bread and Grant of the goods of felons, etc. Grant of Grant of Tonnage, etc. Grant of Tolls of Fish, etc. of the Burrough aforesaid as of all foreigners and aliens whatsoever And also all such and the like Customs clearings powers and priviledges to the same antiently belonging or appertaining which the Mayor and Burgesses of Saint Ives aforesaid or any or either of them by any name or names whatsoever by any Corporation whatsoever or by colour of any Incorporation heretofore have had exercised or enjoyed or could or ought or were accustomed to have hold exercise use and enjoy to them and their successours for ever by reason or colour of any Charter gift grant or confirmation or of any Letters Pattents to them or any or either of them heretofore made granted or confirmed or by reason or coulouer of any prescription use custom or any other lawfull way right or title heretofore had used or accustomed and which by these Presents are not changed or altered although the same or any or either of them have not or hath not been used or the same or any or either of them have or hath been forfeited or left To have hold and enjoy the Burrough aforesaid and all and singular the premises with the aportinances to the aforesaid Mayor and Burgesses of the Burrough aforesaid and their successours for ever To be held of Us Our heirs and successours as first they were held And yielding and paying therefor unto Us Our heirs and successours yearly so many so much such the same and those and the like Rents services sums of money and demands whatsoever as many as much such and which have been accustomed and ought of right to be paid or yielded to Us heretofore for the same Wherefore We will and by these Presents for Us Our heires and Confirmation successours firmly enjoyn and command that the said Mayor and rights and Burgesses of the said Burrough of Saint Ives and their successours privileges. have hold use and enjoy and shall and may fully have hold use and enjoy for ever all and singular the premises with the appurtinances whichsoever Together with all and singular the antient liberties authorities priviledges franchises freedoms immunities jurisdictions lands tenements hereditaments profits and free customs of their predecessours And the same of Our speciall grace to them and their successours We give allow restore and confirm by these Presents as fully freely and wholy as they or their predecessours the same at any time or times heretofore fully and beneficially have had exercised used or enjoyed or ought to have had exercised used or enjoyed without any lett or hinderance of Us Our heirs and successours or the Justices Sheriffs Escheators Bayliffs or other ministers of Us Our heires and successours whatsoever not allowing that the said Mayor and Burgesses of the Burrow aforesaid or their successours or any or either of them by reason of the premises or any of them by Us of all former the Duke of Bolton, the Manor of Porthia. or by Our heires or successours Justices Sheriffs Escheators Bayliffs or other officers or ministers of Us Our heires and successours for the same shall be sued molested grieved or in anySaving the thing be troubled or vexed Provided always that the priviledges just rights of freedoms or rights in these Presents above granted be not the Right Honourable expounded adjudged or interpreted to the damage or hurt of the the Marquess of Winchester, Right Honourable and our dear and faithfull cousen Charles now His Grace Marquesse of Winchester for and concerning his Mannor lands tennements and hereditaments in the Burrough of Saint Ives aforesaid And We will henceforward and for Us Our heirs and Dinas Eia and successours Do Grant to the aforesaid Mayor and Burgesses of the Burrough aforesaid and their successours That these Our Letters Pattents and all and singular liberties franchises priviledges jurisdictions immunities freedoms and all other things herein given granted released and confirmed shall and may be and remain good firm valid sufficient and effectuall in the Law And that this Our present Charter so to them as aforesaid generally made shall and may be of the same strength and effect as it might be if all other the grants privileges and powers above mentioned specified and contained or omitted were more specially legally and particularly in Our said Charter expressed and specifyed And that it may be understood adjudged and determined on the behalf of the said Mayor Aldermen Common Councell and Burgesses of the said Barrow and their successours against Us Our heires and successours for the best advantage and that it may be known or understood against Us Our heires and successours most gratiously and bountifully in favour and benefitt of the aforesaid Mayor and Burgesses of Our Burrough of Saint Ives aforesaid and so from time to time hereafter be expounded. adjudged and interpreted in all Our Courts and places whatsoever of Us Our heirs and successours notwithstanding the severall priviledges franchises and other the premises by these Presents granted are not granted by apt and fitt words or any defect omission contradiction or neglect in these Presence contained or any cause matter or thing whatsoever in times past to the contrary thereof had made or provided or any Statute Act Ordinance Proclamation use custom or matter whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And also We will and obstantibus. by these Presents Do Grant to the said Mayor Aldermen and Remission of Common Councell of the Burrough aforesaid That they shall the Exchequer Fee on these and may have Our Letters Pattents under Our Great Seal of England in due manner made and sealed without any fine or fee great or small to Us in Our Exchequer or to any other Our officers anywhere else in any manner to be rendred payd or Contrariis quibus cumque non Presents. made express mention of the true yearly value or of the certainty of the premises or any of them or of any gifts or grants by Us or any of Our Progenitors to the aforesaid Mayor and Burgesses of the Burrough aforesaid before this time in these Presents not being any Statute Act Ordinance provision or restriction thereof on the contrary heretofore had done made ordained or provided or any other thing cause or matter whatsoever in any manner notwithstanding In Witness whereof these Our Letters We have made Pattents Witness Our Self att Westmester this Eight and Twentieth day of March in the first year of Our Reigne. CHAPTER XVII. BOROUGH ACCOUNTS, 1689-1776. St Ives 1689. John Hicks elected mayor. Quay let to Thomas Collins and William Beriman. (Signed in presence of Thomas Trenwith.) beere bread tobacco and candells to the watch about A suspected ship 4s. os. 5th February 1689. Disbursed about the Iland Chaple : pd for Lyme hellingstons lafts & tymber 8s. od. pd Try to save the hellingstones blowne of 6d. pd for creases nayls and pins 2s. 4d. Masons wages 3s. od. pd Tonkyn Is. 6d. pd for nayls twists A Lock and Kay for the doore 3s. 6d. Disbursements for Chapel Brought forward Expence on the workemen Is. od. Disbursed about the Kay : pd for tymber about the kay 10s. od. spent on them for working 2 houres longer than their tyme IS. 6d. £1 12s. 4d. Expense for me Mr Trenwith & Math: Gyles 3 dayes and nights at Truroe to be sworne £2 5s. od. |