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ASSIZE HALL, AND GUILDHALL. 287 Market House in Broad Street, and was designed to serve the double purpose of Assize-hall and Market House. We may assume that it was structurally completed by the year 1647 ; for in that year the Mayor paid for "hanging the Markett bell," and for " worke done about the ' new Markett house.'" In 1652 a "coller" was supplied for "the markett bell," and the "new Markett howse" was paved and repaired. By a deed dated 1st July, 18 Car. II., 1666 (of which we have only a mutilated draft), made between Richard Cowch, Mayor, and the Communalty of the Burrough on the one part, and William Stokes, gentleman, on the other part, the Mayor and Communalty demised to Stokes "all that one newe erected house for a markett, adioyn- inge to the wester end of the guildhall & markett house of the said burrough, and all ways profits &c. to the same belonginge, together with the use of the said guildhall & markett house durei?tg the tyme of the Assizes, and no longer, in case the same be held as usuall within the said burrough: To hold the premises unto the said Stokes from the 10th day of June then last, for the terme of tenn yeares thence next ensuing, yielding and paying therefor yearly, at the birth of our Lord God, one peppercorn, yf demanded ; And also paying the several sums of money due to the several persons mentioned in a schedule [which schedule is lost], and indemnifying the Mayor, Communalty, and their suc- cessors from such sums : And the said William Stokes thereby covenanted as follows : That he and his executors, &c, shall & will, at or before every assize dureing the said terme, at his & their proper cost & charges, fitt & provide, or cause to be fitted & provided, as usually hath bene heretofore fitted & provided, convenient seats & places for the King's Ma tie8 justices to sitt in, for dispatch of the writts of Nisi Prius & gaole delivering, in the said new erected house 6° market house, 6° the guildhall for the grand jury, and all other