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Cardiff Records
… has on the whole been wielded in the interests of the Burgesses. However this may be, Mr. Town Clerk Wood's … ancient one. Case II. deals with the election of Capital Burgesses and Aldermen of the Borough, and gives extracts … Mr. Henry A. Mereweather gives as his opinion that the Burgesses at large had the right to elect Capital Burgesses, …
Cardiff Records
… Gloucester, some time before 1147, to the free resiants or Burgesses of Cardiff and Tewkesbury alike. (See Charter I.) … earlier customs. Their general effect is to exempt the Burgesses from the more onerous of their feudal obligations … ( Cartoelig;, II., 55), wherein Earl William grants to the Burgesses of Neath "all the liberties and customs which my …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… 'May it please your Majesty, The Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament assembled, with Duty and Loyalty … to do their best, that none should be chosen Knights and Burgesses, but such as the King and his Council should name; … were appointed that none should be chosen Knights or Burgesses, that had any Skill in the Laws of the Land. 'The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in 15256, applied more particularly to the copyholders or burgesses of Dalton. At exchange or succession, after …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is now made yearly out of the poor rate. The mayor and burgesses in 1546 maintained two priests at the parish …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 67 Moor Lane 68 no doubt led up to the moors where the burgesses had various rights. The Townfields seem to have … with the general history of the country, though it sent burgesses to the Parliaments from 1295 to 1331. 70 The Black … grantor's sister; Towneley MS. HH, no. 350, 372. To the burgesses of Preston Henry de Pecford in 131516 granted a …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Free pasturage in the forest of Fulwood was allowed to the burgesses of Preston by King John's charter of 1199, together …