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The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… be Slaves. A free State, Sir, knows no Master but the Law; Freemen are governed by Law, and by Law only; Slaves are …
A History of the County of York
… refusal to elect his nominees because they were not freemen. 68 When the charter of 1665 was restored a few weeks … which may have been effective in some cases thereafter. Freemen fined for office regularly after 1660—more than 40 …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… weekly fine on tradesmen and craftsmen who did not become freemen was 10 s., an amount which some of them were prepared …
A History of the County of York
… 894 2,067 Total 4,658 368 3,149 8,175 a Compiled from York Freemen, ii, by Miss M. E. Sands. marked rise in the number of admissions to the freedom. 42 Non-freemen and any who set them to work were punished. 43 … divergencies from the average (see Table 5). The number of freemen by patrimony shows that many established families …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… in 1685 suggests an expectation of voting rights for freemen. It seems clear, moreover, from the more explicit … Act in 1694, and from then to 1700 no fewer than 143 new freemen were admitted. 87 The character of the representation …
A History of the County of York
… unsuccessfully to keep Thompson out by appealing to the freemen at large. 55 This by-election also gave rise to a …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… the purchase of fuel for the maisons dieu, for grants to freemen accepting pauper apprentices, for pensions to lame …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 23 The corporation defended the exemption of Beverley freemen from tolls at Barnsley and Lincoln in the early years …
Survey of London
… out in the erection of an almshouse for 20 poor single freemen of the company and in the maintenance and schooling of 20 poor boys, sons of freemen. On 20th December, 1690, a private Act of Parliament …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… them, without prejudice to their own Journey-men, who are Freemen) upon such penalty as the Chancellor of either of the … any other Person or Persons, than such only as are Freemen or Apprentices to the Trade or Mystery of Printing, … the Casting or Founding of Letters, than such only as are Freemen or Apprentices to the Trade of Founding Letters, save …