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<HEAD>At a Common Councell there held the two and twentieth day of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> 1656, <NOTE PLACE="marg">City of <HI>Glouc. &s;s.</HI></NOTE> in the time of <HI>Dennis Wi&s;e,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Mayor there.</HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as his Highne&s;&s;e, the Lord Protector, and his Councel, the fir&s;t of <HI>Iuly</HI> la&s;t, have been plea&s;ed to order that the late Cathedrall, or Colledge Church in this City of <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> and the Uten&s;ils thereof, with the Cloy&s;ters, and other things mentioned in the &s;aid Order, Be thenceforth enjoyed by the Mayor and Burge&s;&s;es of this City, and their &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ors, for the preaching and hearing of Gods Word, and other publique U&s;es, in the &s;aid Order expre&s;&s;ed. And fora&s;much as the &s;aid Church is now very ruinous, and in great decay, for want of needfull and nece&s;&s;ary reparations, and great part thereof ready to fall downe, unle&s;&s;e the &s;ame be timely prevented; the charge of which &s;aid repa|rations is too great to be borne by the Chamber of this City, being already much indebted, by rea&s;on of their former charges and engagements for the Publique. And in regard divers Gentlemen, and others, have expre&s;&s;ed their willingne&s;&s;e to contribute to &s;o good a worke, It is thereupon thought fit and ordered by the &s;aid Mayor and Burge&s;&s;es of the &s;aid City, that the Ruines and decay&eacute;s afore&s;aid, e&s;pecially &s;uch as are mo&s;t needfull, be &s;peedily repaired and amended; And that for the better effecting thereof, the bene|volence of &s;uch Gentlemen, and others, as are minded to be Benefactors to &s;o good a Worke, be prayed and de&s;ired; And to that end it is now further ordered, That <HI>Laurence Singleton,</HI> one of the Aldermen of the &s;aid City, <HI>Toby Iordan, Thomas Pierce</HI> of the &s;ame, Gentlemen, <HI>George Guinnet</HI> the elder, of <HI>Shurdington</HI> in the County of the &s;aid City Gentleman, <HI>Iohn Brew&s;ter</HI> of the City of <HI>London</HI> Gentleman, <HI>Iohn Singleton, Iames Commelin, Iohn Tomes, Godfrey Ellis, William Angell, Walter Harris, Iohn Donne,</HI> and <HI>Thomas Bur|roughes</HI> of the &s;ame City, Gentlemen, and Ma&s;ter <HI>Matthew Haviland,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Iohn Wells,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Iohn Langley,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Thomas Ty|ther,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Robert Gyde</HI> of the City of <HI>London,</HI> and every of them be intru&s;ted to be Collectors, and to make their addre&s;&s;es to &s;uch per&s;ons as in their di&s;cretions they &s;hall think fit to repre&s;ent the ruinous condition of the &s;aid Church unto, and to receive the &s;ub&s;criptions, or what &s;hall be freely given and be&s;towed towards the repaire thereof, and from time to time to pay in and deliver what &s;hall be by them &s;o received, unto <HI>Dennis Wi&s;e</HI> of the City of <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> Alderman, who is now al&s;o appointed to be Trea&s;urer to receive the &s;aid money; which &s;aid Trea&s;urer is hereby ordered to i&s;&s;ue out the &s;ame from time to time, according to &s;uch Order or Orders in writing, as he &s;hall receive from the Mayor of the &s;aid City for the time being, <HI>William Cooke, Thomas Hodges, Chri&s;to|pher Gi&s;e, Richard Atkins</HI> of the County of the City of <HI>Glouce&s;ter,</HI> E&s;quires, <HI>Evan Seys, Thomas Pury</HI> the elder, <HI>Thomas Pury</HI> the younger, of the &s;aid City of <HI>Gloucester,</HI> E&s;quires, and <HI>Anthony Edwards,</HI> one of the Aldermen of the &s;aid City, or any three of them under their hands: Which &s;aid Mayor, <HI>William Cooke, Thomas Hodges, Chri&s;topher Gi&s;e, Richard Atkins, Evan Seys, Thomas Pury</HI> the elder, <HI>Thomas Pury</HI> the younger, and <HI>Anthony Edwards,</HI> are de&s;ired and intru&s;ted to be Tru&s;tees and Over&s;eers, to take care for the &s;peedy repaire of the &s;aid Church, according as money &s;hall come in for the doing thereof. And the &s;aid Collectors are hereby al&s;o ordered from time to time to give an account of what they &s;hall receive, and pay in to the &s;aid Trea&s;urer, and the &s;aid Trea&s;urer is al&s;o to give an account of his Receits and disbur&s;ements, all to be entred into a Regi&s;ter booke, to be kept by the Mayor for the time being, to the end that it may appeare what is given and brought in, as al&s;o laid out for the u&s;es afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><ADD>Aug: 22 1656</ADD></DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>John Dorney,
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