The History of the Boroughs and Municipal Corporations of the United Kingdom from the Earliest to the Present Time: With an Examination of Records, Charters, and Other Documents, Illustrative of Their Constitution and Powers
The History of the Boroughs and Municipal Corporations of the United Kingdom from the Earliest to the Present Time: With an Examination of Records, Charters, and Other Documents, Illustrative of Their Constitution and Powers
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. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...for being a burgess, if the person lived within the borough. The charters all tend to show, that there was only one class originally existing--and one class subsequently incorporated--which were the burgesses: that is, the inhabitant householders paying scot and lot, presented, enrolled, sworn, and admitted at ...
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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. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...for being a burgess, if the person lived within the borough. The charters all tend to show, that there was only one class originally existing--and one class subsequently incorporated--which were the burgesses: that is, the inhabitant householders paying scot and lot, presented, enrolled, sworn, and admitted at the court leet: Domesday.--and they only were entitled to the privileges of the Northamp. See Journal, p. 315. t Hlankley i. Wiintaaluy, Term Rep. iii.279. ' ' ' tonsmri-place...ami 11 Leicestur-This is the clear and intelligible result of the investigation sh'n' we have thus made, in detail, of the boroughs of Northampton and Leicester. WARWICKSHIRE. WARWICK, TAMWORTH. In the county of Warwick there were two parliamentary Fol.338. boroughs, Warwick and Coventry, besides Tamworth, which last is partly in Warwickshire and partly in Staffordshire. Ten burgesses in Tamworth (clearly establishing it to be a borough in that time) are entered under the king's land, as belonging to the manor of Coleshelle. WARWICK. The entry as to Warwick, which precedes the list of the Foi.238. tenants of the county at large, describes it as a borough; and states, that the king has 113 houses, and the king's barons 112, of which the king hath all his geld. Then follows an enumeration of the masurae which each of the barons possesses, amounting altogether to 115--four of which are stated to be waste on account of the site of the castle. Besides these, one house is mentioned--and 13 belonging to other barons. But nothing is said, with respect to these houses, as to any burgesses; although 19 burgesses are mentioned as having 19 masureE. There is therefore a clear distinction between the houses and the masurffi: the latter seem each to have their burgess; the...
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