Search
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… at three. February 24,1658–9. Mr. Alderman Topham, (a burgess for York.) Except the Sound be guarded, we shall not …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… chosen. 2. That James Cooper, Esq. was elected the other burgess by the major part of such as had votes, he being not …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… strict rules of common law. In case of non-residency of a Burgess or Enight, lex. el consuetudo parliamenti dispenseth … county is four shillings per diem, and every citizen or burgess is to have two shillings per diem." (4 Inst. 46.) Lea …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… a false return of Rowland Dawkins, Esq. to serve as burgess for the said town, was sent for in safe custody, was … Dawkins, Esq. who had not above twenty voices, to serve burgess for the said borough in this Parliament; and had not …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… me that one borough, which had a right to choose but one burgess, had returned two, and that by an escape both were …