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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 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… burgesses in opposition to William White, elected by the freemen at large, and the latter being unseated on petition, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 'such regulations as are made in corporations, to favour freemen in exclusion to strangers'; Ogden, Description. 32 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the electors, according to a decision in 1797, were the freemen or burgesses, that is any persons 'seised of a …