Next after this we read as follows—
“January 5th. This day by order of this House the Common Seal is taken out of the Treasury and affixed unto ane Indenture for the election of Mr. Alderman Toll and Capt. Griffith Loyd to be burgesses in the next parliament for this Burrough of King’s Lynn.”
Thus the affair then ended, and the freemen at large were excluded from any share or concern in the election.
[774a] We accordingly find the following items in one of the Church books within the first year after the siege—
Received by virtue of severall warrantsfrom Mr. John May maior.—1644, | ||||
July 13 | Of I. Hinderson, ostler, for an oath sweareing in Mr.mayor’s hearing | 00l. | 01s. | 00d. |
Dec. 23. | Of Mihill Turner, alehousekeeper, for suffering tipplingin his house | 00. | 10. | 00. |
Dec. 24. | Of John Say, alehousekeeper, levied for the sameoffence | 00. | 10. | 00. |
Mar. 6. | Of John Pratt, dier, for tippleing in the said John Saveshouse | 00. | 03. | 04. |
Mar. 7. | Of Margarett Freeman, alehousekeeper, for sufferingtipling in her house | 00. | 10. | 00. |
Mar. 15. | Of Phillip Murrell for loytring in time of church serviceon a Lords Day | 00. | 05. | 00. |
Mar. 16. | Of Richard Porter, pinner, for an apprentice boy of hisoffending in the like | 00. | 01. | 00. |
This is the first account we meet with of these proceedings here; but a great deal in the same way occurs in the memoranda of succeeding years.
[774b] See Abstract of Town-books under 1650.
[775] Under that year the following articles occur in the church-warden’s accounts, May 6. (received) from Hillar Browne, by the hands of Capt. Wm. Mann, levied upon the said Hillar Browne by him, for profanely swearing seven oathes, 7s.
July 9. Levied by vertue of a warrant from Mr. John May maior, by distraining and selling twelve puter platters of the goods of Wm. Churston, for that the said Wm. and Jone his wife were convicted for profanely swearing each ten oathes, 1l.
[776] Under 1646 we find as follows—