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A History of the County of Essex
… Colchester district (later borough). A town council with a mayor as chairman retained limited powers. 78 PUBLIC …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by Her Majesty in council as a municipal borough, with a mayor, twelve aldermen, and 36 councillors, and divided into … Sir Stephen Jenyns, Knt., a native of the town, and lord mayor of London in 1508, who endowed it with estates in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… all who wished to common there. 16 In 1493, however, the mayor and bailiffs of Oxford seized 10 cattle which William …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Wolvercote, but it was probably an inn by 1625 when the mayor of Oxford and his party lunched there on their way …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 14 July, 1663; vicar of Aldworth, Berks, 1662. See Mayor, 143; & Foster's Index Eccl. Woodwarde "Semis," of co. …
A History of the County of Essex
… were lords of the manor, 141 and Sir Thomas White (lord mayor in 1877). 142 Michael Godfrey (d. 1695), son of a …
A History of the County of Essex
… Benjamin Thorowgood, alderman of London, who became lord mayor in 1685. 37 Thorowgood (d. 1694) was followed by his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in length. The chapel was founded by Sir Edmund Shaa, lord mayor of London at the time of Richard III.'s usurpation. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… number twenty-five, viz., five aldermen, from among whom a mayor is annually chosen; a high steward; and a recorder, … of an enlarged district, which comprises 21,712 acres: the mayor is returning officer. The corporation, as lords of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of no. 14 Oxford Street. Parker (d. 1719), malster and mayor, was closely concerned in the Blenheim building works … nos. 14 and 16 were sold to H. T. T. Palmer, surgeon and mayor (d. 1864), who seems to have lived at no. 16. 85 No. 14 … sold in 1515 to John Baron (or Barnes), mercer, many times mayor. 79 In the early 17th century the house and its eastern …