The History of the Boroughs and Municipal Corporations of the United Kingdom: From the Earliest to the Present Time: with an Examination of Records, Charters, and Other Documents, Illustrative of Their Constitution and Powers, Volum 2Stevens and sons, 1835 |
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Pàgina 1116 - Parliament, and yet have had neither knight ne burgess there for the said county palatine; the said inhabitants, for lack thereof, have been oftentimes touched and grieved with acts and statutes made within the said court, as well derogatory unto the most ancient jurisdictions, liberties, and privileges of your said county palatine, as prejudicial unto the commonwealth, quietness, rest, and peace of your Grace's most bounden subjects inhabiting within the same.
Pàgina 1116 - Chester is and hath been always hitherto exempt, excluded and separated out and from your high court of Parliament, to have any knights and burgesses within the said court ; by reason whereof the said inhabitants have hitherto sustained manifold disherisons, losses, and damages, as well in their lands, goods, and bodies, as in the good, civil, and politic governance and maintenance of the Commonwealth of their said country.
Pàgina 836 - England, have now of late been made by very great, outrageous, and excessive number of people dwelling within the same counties of the realm of England, of the which most part was of people of small substance and of no value; whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to 'such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires dwelling within the same counties...
Pàgina 1366 - Baronet, is duly elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Banbury.
Pàgina 1045 - Certainly his times for good commonwealth's laws did excel. So as he may justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation, after King Edward the First; for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy ; after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.
Pàgina 1105 - Realm, and also because that the People of the same Dominion have and do daily use a Speech nothing like, nor consonant to the natural Mother Tongue used within this Realm, some rude and ignorant People have made Distinction and Diversity between the King's Subjects of this Realm, and his Subjects of the said Dominion and Principality of WALES, whereby great Discord Variance Debate Division Murmur and Sedition hath grown between his said Subjects...
Pàgina 1328 - Rapids; and all the freemen of said city, from time to time, being inhabitants thereof, shall be and continue to be a body corporate and politic, by the name of the mayor, recorder, aldermen and freemen of the city of Grand Rapids ; and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law...
Pàgina 1272 - All magistrates, who have been unjustly turned out, shall forthwith resume their former employments ; as well as all the boroughs of England shall return again to their ancient prescriptions and charters...
Pàgina 1173 - ... or from our cities and boroughs, there be good regard had that the choice be made of men of gravity and knowledge in their ' own counties and towns, fit for their understanding and qualities to be in such a great council. And, therefore, since some part of the proceeding herein shall rest in you by virtue of your office, we do, for the great desire we have that this our parliament may be assembled with personages out of every county of wisdom and experience, at this present recommend two gentlemen...
Pàgina 782 - ... that at the next county [court] , to be holden after the delivery of the writ of the parliament, proclamation shall be made in the full county of the day and place of the parliament, and that all they that be there present, as well suitors duly summoned for the same cause, as other, shall attend to the election of their knights for the parliament; and then in the full county they shall proceed to the election freely and indifferently, notwithstanding any request or commandment to the contrary...