This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...Aldgate, becoming an Alderman, of London, in consequence of the grant to that priory of the "English Knighten Gild," and to which Stow assigns the origin of Portsoken Ward. In the seventeenth of Richard II., 1394, it was enacted by Parliament, that the Aldermen of There is no trace when the name of Alderman was first ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...Aldgate, becoming an Alderman, of London, in consequence of the grant to that priory of the "English Knighten Gild," and to which Stow assigns the origin of Portsoken Ward. In the seventeenth of Richard II., 1394, it was enacted by Parliament, that the Aldermen of There is no trace when the name of Alderman was first applied to the president of the London wards or gilds; the probability is, it was introduced after the Conquest. The denomination' was common in the Saxon times to various judicial dignities and offices, but there is no record of it as applied to the heads of particular districts in London during that period; and there is reason to believe that the appellation was not used in that sense until the reign of Henry II., when they are first mentioned as presiding over gilds, some of which were territorial, aud others mercantile. In the reign of Henry III., Aldermanries had become a common term for a civic district comprised within a leet jurisdiction, as well in Loudon as in otuer cities of tlie oitv should not from thenceforth be elected annually but continue in their several offices during life or good behaviour; and amongst the qualifications enumerated in earlier days to render the candidate eligible to the dignity, he was to be of comely person, wise, grave, wealthy, faithful, and generous; not of mean and servile condition, so as to disparage the place and state of the city. The term Ward is also of Saxon derivation, denoting a district, which has given rise to the opinion, that certain portions or quarters of London, like other cities and towns, were originally held of the Saxon monarchs and noblemen in demesne, to whom they appertained as so many sokes or liberties; and corroborative of this supposition, we read in " Liber A t...
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