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THE PORTREEVES. 175 when required by the Mayor and his brethren, show their deeds, and how their fines pass and end, with a view to the further ordering of such lands and tenements. It seems to have been the duty of the portreeves to levy executions, and pay over the proceeds. In the year 11 Henry VIII. the portreeves were charged with negligence, " to the injury of the King's poor subjects." The Mayor, therefore, with the advice and assent aforesaid, ordained that the portreeves should thenceforth levy all executions adjudged by the Court between party and party, before the third Court next ensuing the judgment, on pain of forfeiting 6s. 8d. to the use of the common fund, to be levied by the Mayor before the fourth Court ; and with reference to the Mayor's account of office, it was ordered that he should alway finish the same, and discharge the balance found against him, by the day that the twelve men annually went about, in the Christmas holidays, before the feast of the Epiphany. This balance was to be laid up in the Treasury, on pain of forfeiting £4, being twice the Mayor's fee ; such £4 to be levied to the use of the Commons by the twelve sworn men. 1 52 1-2. Dounhevet. Account, on a parchment roll 4 feet and 1 inch long, 10 inches wide, Richard Mylle, Mayor, from the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, 12 Henry VIII., to the same feast 13 Henry VIII. Among the receipts for rent are 1 lb. of pepper, 1 lb. of comyn, and 13! lbs. of "wex." There also appear, for the first time, in this account, credits for rent received for tenements in the village of St. Stephen, Duston, and under Kestell Woode. A total of 23s. 4d. is credited from divers men for their entries as burgesses, and 30s. in part payment for other such entries. The payments for rents are to the same general purport as in former accounts, and include a chief rent for Wyllesworthy, with a fine of 3s. for suit of Court .there. Among the pensions to priests and other ministers of the Church, John Mayster, clerk, and the parish priests, received 18s. for reading their names in the common kalendar, with 4c]. added, to pray for