1584-1585 William Huntt, baker, 1st son and apprentice of Thomas, baker, was admitted as a freeman of Leicester. [1]
1594-1595 William Hunt, baker, was renting property in the borough of Leicester. [2]
Borough Rental.
Box K, no number. Villa Leicestrie. [1594-5.] A Rentall of suche parte of the lands and tenements as the Maior and Burgesses of the Town of Leicestre arr possessed and seised of in fee symple and by lease att this present. And of some parte of the lands and tenements the said Maior and Burgesses holde in fee farme from her Majestie and have nowe in theire present and actuall possession and due to the said Mayor and Burgesses for one whole yeeres rentt ended att the feaste of St Michaell tharkaungell which shalbee in the yere of our lorde God 1595: as followethe viz. ...
Other landes and tenementes in Hawkes and Bates lease which is nowe expired at the Annunciacion of the Virgyn Marye, 1595. ...
Item of Wm. Hunte, baker, for a mesuage or tenemente in his occupacion, per annum xxvs. viiid.
1599 A servant of William Hunt, baker, was mentioned in the records of the borough of Leicester. [3]
Hall Papers II, No. 596. The names of the morrys dawnsers on Tuesday night in Whitsonweek last [May 29] 1599. ...
4. Will. Salesbury, servant to Will. Hunt baker.
1602-1603 "Wm. Hunt" was one of the two chamberlains of the borough of Leicester. [4]
1607 On July 20, William Hunt was one of the auditors of the chamberlains' accounts for the borough of Leicester for the year 1605-1606. [5]
1607/08 On January 20, Willelmus Hunt and Thomas Hunt were members of the company of forty eight councilors of the borough of Leicester and voted no in a decision concerning an assessment. [6]
1609 On May 9, William Hunte was one of the six members of the company of forty eight councilors of the borough of Lecicester appointed a commissioner to lease or sell town lands. [7]
1612 On July 17, William Hunt, Thomas Nurse and five others were chosen to set the rates for the company of forty eight for a contribution of xxiiijli. toward the purchase by the of a "faire standinge Cupp with a Cover, of Silver and Gilte, worth xxxli. or thereaboutes to geve to our most grasious Soveraigne Lord King James at his highnes Cominge to Leicester the xxviijth Day of August next cuminge And allso to have the Townes Greate Mase Amended and gilded And to have the Kinges Armes of new set upon the toppe of the said Mase." [8]
1613-1614 Bartholomew Hunt, 2nd son and apprentice of William Hunt, baker, was admitted as a freeman of Leicester. [9]
1614 On St. Matthew's Day (September 21) Willhelmus Huntt and Thomas Huntt, members of the company of forty eight councilors, were each assessed xs. in an assessment in the borough of Leicester. [10]
1618 William Hunt was elected bailiff of the borough of Leicester. [11]
1619 William Hunt was bailiff of the borough of Leicester at the time of the 1619 visitation on September 23. [12]
An heraldic manuscript from the year 1619, when W. Camden, Clarencieux, made a Visitation of Leicestershire by his deputies Sampson Lennard, Bluemantle, and Augustin Vincent, Rouge Rose, Pursuivants, commences,—"These are the armes and towne Seales vsed by the maior and B . . . . . . of the Boroughe of Leicester, which now is in Corporated by the n . . . of Mayor, Baylies, and Burgesses of the said Boroughe of Lei . . . . . , and Enabled with Manie great preiuledges and large Mounimentes [by] Manie of The aunciente Kinges of Englande, and Since Confermed And enlarged by Kinge James that now is ded. Of which Saide borogh at the tyme of this present Visitation, viz: 23 Septembris, 1619, was Maior of the sad Towne, Nicholas Gillott; and Will. Morton Willm Tue, Thomas Erick, and Tho: Pusey, were Justes of the peace within the sad Borighe; & John Willney and William hunt, Barliffe there; and John Freeman, Steward; John Tattan and John Norrice, Chamb'lains; and Fraunces haruie esqe: Sirgante of the Lawe, Recorder of the sad Borough. ..."
1618-1619 William Hunt was coroner of the borough of Leicester. [13]
1619-1620 William Hunt was one of the three stewards of the fair of the borough of Leicester. [14]
1621-1622 Henry Hunt, baker, 3rd son of Mr. William Hunt, baker, was admitted as a freeman of Leicester. [15]
1629-1630 William Hunt was one of the two chamberlains of the borough of Leicester. [16]
1630-1631 John Hunt, 4th son of Mr. Wm. Hunt, baker, and apprentice of Edmund Coop[er], woolen draper, was admitted as a freeman of Leicester. [17]
Research Notes:
There was another William Hunt, a draper, in Leicester, by 1620, but the use of "Mr." in the records of admissions of his sons Henry and John suggests that it was William Hunt, baker, who was a borough official in the records cited above.
1625-1626 Phillip Mann, apprentice of William Hunt, woollen draper, was admitted as a freeman of Leicester. [18]
It appears that neither William Hunt, draper, nor the eldest son of William Hunt, baker, is listed in the published freemen admission records.
[1] Henry Hartopp, ed., Register of the Freemen of Leicester 1196-1770 (Leicester, Corporation of the City of Leicester, 1927), 86, [World_Cat].
[2] Mary Bateson, W. H. Stevenson, and J. E. Stocks, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1509-1603, Vol. 3 (Cambridge: University Press, 1905), 313, [HathiTrust].
[3] Mary Bateson, W. H. Stevenson, and J. E. Stocks, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1509-1603, Vol. 3 (Cambridge: University Press, 1905), 359, [HathiTrust].
[4] Mary Bateson, W. H. Stevenson, and J. E. Stocks, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1509-1603, Vol. 3 (Cambridge: University Press, 1905), 464, [HathiTrust].
[5] Helen Stocks and W. H. Stevenson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1603-1688, Vol. 4 (Cambridge: University Press, 1923), 52, [HathiTrust].
[6] Helen Stocks and W. H. Stevenson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1603-1688, Vol. 4 (Cambridge: University Press, 1923), 66, [HathiTrust].
[7] Helen Stocks and W. H. Stevenson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1603-1688, Vol. 4 (Cambridge: University Press, 1923), 89, [HathiTrust].
[8] Helen Stocks and W. H. Stevenson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1603-1688, Vol. 4 (Cambridge: University Press, 1923), 123, [HathiTrust].
[9] Henry Hartopp, ed., Register of the Freemen of Leicester 1196-1770 (Leicester, Corporation of the City of Leicester, 1927), 108, [World_Cat].
[10] Helen Stocks and W. H. Stevenson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1603-1688, Vol. 4 (Cambridge: University Press, 1923), 145, [HathiTrust].
[11] Helen Stocks and W. H. Stevenson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1603-1688, Vol. 4 (Cambridge: University Press, 1923), 597, [HathiTrust].
[12] "Bi-Monthly Meeting, 31st December, 1855," Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society Vol. 1 (Leicester: Crossley and Clarke, 1862), 70-71 at 71, [HathiTrust].
[13] Helen Stocks and W. H. Stevenson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1603-1688, Vol. 4 (Cambridge: University Press, 1923), 602, [HathiTrust].
[14] Helen Stocks and W. H. Stevenson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1603-1688, Vol. 4 (Cambridge: University Press, 1923), 604, [HathiTrust].
[15] Henry Hartopp, ed., Register of the Freemen of Leicester 1196-1770 (Leicester, Corporation of the City of Leicester, 1927), 113, [World_Cat].
[16] Helen Stocks and W. H. Stevenson, ed., Records of the Borough of Leicester, Being a series of Extracts from the Archives of the Corportaion of Leicester, 1603-1688, Vol. 4 (Cambridge: University Press, 1923), 601, [HathiTrust].
[17] Henry Hartopp, ed., Register of the Freemen of Leicester 1196-1770 (Leicester, Corporation of the City of Leicester, 1927), 119, [World_Cat].
[18] Henry Hartopp, ed., Register of the Freemen of Leicester 1196-1770 (Leicester, Corporation of the City of Leicester, 1927), 116, [World_Cat].