Catalogue description Lease by the mayor, etc., of Newport to Henry Ringwood of Newport, merchant, part of their shop against the fish shambles in High Street, North side, under the loft sometime the Town Hall, containing in length, back from the High Street 13½ feet and in width 9½ ft, sometime in occupancy of Dowsabel Jolliffe and since of Richard Jolliffe and by him assigned to said Henry Ringwood.

Also tenement with shop and loft over the same, adjoining unto the said tenement, some time the Town hall and the stairs and room off the stairs thereto which said Henry Ringwood now holdeth, by virtue of a lease granted by the corporation to Geo. Mayleigh, deceased on 27 May 1611, and a little piece of ground on the east side of the tenement, whereon John Jolliffe did erect an addition of building to the same tenement and one other common piece of ground adjoining taken from the south end of Watchbell Lane where Henry Ringwood hath lately erected another addition of building to the premises, extending from the building, erected by John Jolliffe, northward unto the town land there, which the said Henry now hath or holdeth of Robert Waterton, gent.