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A History of the County of Hampshire
… One seems to have been the mayor's serjeant, who bore the mace; the other three were general town serjeants. By … made at the boroughmote by Robert Tarleton, serjeant-at-mace. He declared that on 31 August last 'about one houre … aldermen of the said city who had just before caryd their mace before His Majesty.' 178 One of the offices devolving on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 'wore their white bands', 59 and by then they had a mace used at the election of officers and inscribed with … the legend recut in 1985. 349 There was presumably a town mace by the late 16th century, when the serjeant was sometimes called the serjeant of the mace. 350 The existing, silvered mace is 18th-century, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the early 17th century was Thomas Heathen, serjeant-at-mace, 30 who before 1638 acquired the freehold, which his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the market. 43 In the 17th century the serjeant-at-mace and town crier were usually employed as market …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a villein. They were to choose a mayor and sergeant-at-mace, and the corporation, under the title of the mayor and … empowered the corporation to elect a mayor and serjeant-at-mace annually, but made no mention of aldermen or a common … an alderman unfit for the magistracy. 95 The serjeant-at-mace was given prominence in the charter of 1453 as one of …
A History of the County of York
… there had been five vicarschoral: now only one, Thomas Mace, remained, and he was made sub-chanter. In 1667 there … of Grindal, ii. 249. Minst. Fab. R. 116. Ibid. 319 n.; T. Mace, Musick's Monument (1676), 27, 167. Minst. Fab. R. 137. … 522. Minst. Fab. R. 319 n. Benson, Hist. York, iii. 29-31. Mace, Musick's Monument, 27; Minst. Fab. R. 319 n. Benson, …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… for ever a sergeant or officer, who shall carry a silver mace or wand with our royal arms on the upper end, and the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… power to choose a steward, a town-clerk, and a sergeant-at-mace, and to create freemen: this last privilege is not … by a townclerk, water-bailiff, gaoler, three sergeants-at-mace, and other officers, appointed under the act 5th and 6th …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… formed a part of the corporation; he presented the first mace to the city, and a cap of maintenance to the …