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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… since, by the corporation. The mayor and recorder are justices of the peace, with exclusive jurisdiction. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the county court throughout the Middle Ages, and the justices of the eyre always sat first in the county court at … Marlborough were also visited. 18 The 'four knights', or 'justices', commissioned from 1220 to try possessory assizes, … about 1242 and in the ensuing fifty years the professional justices, who heard civil pleas within the county, did not …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and the churchwardens with the assent of the mayor and the justices of the peace, apprenticed the sixteen-year old Isaac … plague, while others were in almshouses at Wilton; the justices ordered that 40 s. should be raised weekly in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… government is vested in a mayor and twelve jurats, who are justices of the peace within the ancient town and its … are co-extensive; the mayor, late mayor, and recorder, are justices of the peace, and the number of other magistrates is …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the Pavilion on St. Giles' Hill, where the seneschal and justices held a sitting of the court of the Soke called the … during the period of the fair, while the seneschal and justices were at liberty to appoint a mayor, bailiffs and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of this may be given. When in 1261 the itinerant justices sat at Wallingford 5 they heard that one Benet Hervy … be hanged whatever he might do. Further questioned by the justices, the Wallingford jurors declared that their … Henry met this by action for disseisin before the justices itinerant. The jury recited the facts and declared …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… The mayor, recorder and aldermen were henceforth to be justices of the peace for the city and liberty and precincts. The justices of the peace of the county were not henceforth to exercise any jurisdiction belonging to the justices of peace of the city. The mayor, bailiffs, and …