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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/A14/Box 1/2
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/1/2
TitleChamber Order Book
DescriptionCompiled by Town Clerks William Wyatt and Francis Street, and their assistants.

Approximately one-fifth of the book is concerned with the election, replacement and disciplining of officers and listing their names and position. Other matters discussed include selecting Worcester's Parliamentary representatives; the renegotiation of the charter; admittance of freemen (incomplete record); surveys, maintenance, leases and encroachments (purprestures) of municipal land, thoroughfares and property; taxes, loans and payments made by and to the city; standardisation of, and provision for checking, weights and measures; the prison; petitions received from residents; mustering and civil defence; public health and safety (plague, water supply, risk of fire); regulation of inns, trade and markets, particularly regarding animals in the city; care of orphans and the poor; and raising money, soldiers and fortifications for the Civil War, during which period the frequency of meetings increased from about every month to every few days.

Some pencil annotations from the twentieth century, usually dates or difficult to read words, but also some ticks and cross marks.

Rebound 1970.

This was transcribed and published by the Worcestershire Historical Society in 1974 under the title 'Chamber Order Book of Worcester 1602 - 1650'.
Date1602-1650
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