[421b] St. George’s Hall, after it became the property of the corporation, was long used as a court-house, to hold the quarter-sessions for the county. Those sessions have since been removed to the Trinity Guildhall, now the Town-hall: since which time St. George’s hall has been converted into a Play-house, and is now during the mart time, and for sometime after, occupied annually by a company of comedians.
[423] A word is here left out: Security, perhaps.
[424a] surety, perhaps.
[424b] It probably should be 2s.
[425a] Here is an illegible word: those that follow also are scarcely intelligible.
[425b] Our modern clerks are better paid.
[425c] They had secrets, it seems, which they deemed of much importance; but it does not appear of what sort they were.
[426a] Some word or words seem here wanting.
[426b] This shews that this Gild also had a Hall.
[426c] Supposing the number of members to be 50, his annual stipend, or salary amounted to only 25s. A chaplain now would expect fifty times that sum, at least.