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, Volume 2 |
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Page 1032 - Richard by the grace of God king of England and of France, and lord of Ireland...
Page 1112 - 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.
Page 1112 - 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.
Page 1336 - Baronet, is duly elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Banbury.
Page 1039 - 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.
Page 1322 - 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...
Page 1043 - ... among themselves many unlawful and unreasonable ordinances, as well in prices of ware and other things for their own singular profit and to the common hurt and damage of the people...
Page 1266 - 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...
Page 564 - ... GENERAL LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. THE Hagerman Collection HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE JAMES J. HAGERMAN OF CLASS OF '61 IN THE HANDS OP Professor Charles Kendall Adams 1883.
Page 780 - ... 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...