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A History of the County of Essex
… An additional 2 hides and 1½ virgate, previously held by 7 freemen, had by 1086 also been acquired by Peter, who claimed …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… Merits of the Petition of Samuel Taylor Esq; and of the Freemen and Burghers of the Borough of King's-Lynn, in the …
Old and New London
… of Municipal Inquiry that there were then sixty poor freemen on the charity roll, who received 10 a year each. The … the same parish, and giving a sum to such as were bound to freemen of London at the end of their apprenticeship. Here …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… alms-houses from the City. The school was designed for 50 freemen's sons, boarders aged 8-15, to be brought up on …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… entertainment offered by Bamber Gascoyne, senior, to the freemen on the occasion of his son's success in 1780; Brooke, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… that the right of election was in the burgesses and freemen. The burgesses were such as had in any land or houses … or land there; and both these had a right of electing. The freemen were such as lived in the houses within the borough … that the election must be by the free burghers and not the freemen at large, and in 1662 that it must be by freeholders …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… with court of pie powder, were ratified and extended. 16 Freemen were elected and a town hall was built. 17 The … serve for seven years. It is added that several of the old freemen were living and were exempt from the fair and market …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… his wife; Final Conc, iii, 17. In 1523 a jury of twelve freemen of the view of frankpledge in Goosnargh was summoned …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… held on 19 November, when a large number of persons called freemen, chosen by the manor court, appointed a mayor. A wake …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was vested in the corporation from ancient times and the freemen had right of pasturage there. It became the custom to divide the area and assign portions to the senior freemen living in the town. By an Act of 1795 for embanking … the inclosure were to be divided among the eighty oldest freemen or their widows. By an Act of 1864 part was sold, and …