Deering took much pains to procure a correct list of the mayors of this place īut his attempt was ineffectual, particularly of those who served prior to 1600. ( prepositus) for above the space of 200 years, reckoning no farther back than the conquest. In support of the above, Deering asserts that Nottingham was, doubtless, an ancientīorough by prescription long before the conquest and governed by a Reave or Bayliff Sheriffs, and incorporated them by the name of Major and Burgesses, in which plight they continued Burgesses in their Corporation, and then the King made the Borough a County, and turned the Bayliffs into Years may sell their Lands as if they were of full age. There is a Custom within the English Borough of Nottingham, That Infants after fifteen And in the Plea Rolls of Common Pleas, M. In the English Borough bloodshed is but 6s. The distinction of the Boroughs continues to this day, and are called Secundum consuetudinem utriusque Burgi, and that their Major should be Escheator within (a phrase in that ancient time including Successors) and further that they should takeĮdward the first granted unto them that they might elect a Major and two Bayliffs That Farm they had by that Charter the aforesaid Town given to them and their heirs 'In the Charter of Henry the third the Ferme is expressed to be 52l. The infringing of these Liberties upon forfeiture of ten pounds. Should pay the King's Ferme at his Exchequer at Easter and Michaelmas, and forbids That whoever should by them be constituted ( Præpositus) Bayliff of that Borough, Of his great Grandfather and further gives them Gildam mercaoriam, and appoints He grants them in effect, what his father had granted, and what they held in the time Mortayne and I have seen that old Charter without a Seal. That when he was King hath relation to the Charter he granted, cum essemus Comes In a kind of Regal manner, and in that time he granted to the Burgesses of NottinghamĪ Charter of Liberties to the same effect, as he did in the first year of his Reign, for King John, when he was Earl Mortayne, had all Nottinghamshire, and the Forest, 'By all this it clearly appears they were a Corporation before, and had those FreeĬustoms, kept a Market, and paid a Ferme to the Crown. Us, ue ed vesperum diet Sabbati non namentur nisi pro firma Regis. Men coming ad forum de Nottingham cum quadrigis & summagiis suis a vespere diei veneris Newarke, of all passing the Trent by the same Charter he grants to them, That all ( Ductu) way beyond Rempston unto Redford in le North, and from Thurmesien unto Tholl, and Theme, and Infangtheise, and Tell from the 'The first Charter to this Ancient Borough appearing on Record, or that I couldĮver hear of, was made by Henry the second, and it is Burgensibus de Nottingham,Īnd he thereby gives them all those Free Customs which they had in the time of King Mary, of theĮnglish Borough of Nottingham, the Church of St. He gives to this Monastery the Tythe of his Fish, of the Fishing of Nottingham andįurther gives them ( Concedente Domino meo Henrico) the Church of St. Regis, & Matildæ Reginæ uxoris ejus, & filii eorum Willielmi, & filiœ eorum Matildæ, William, Henry the firsts son) where the words are, Pro salute Domini mei Henerici Priory of Lenton (which was Founded in Henry the first his time, before the death of For William Peverell in the Foundation of the "It seems the Conquerour, or one of his sons, gave the Dominion of Nottingham,Īnd the Forest, to William Peverel his Bastard son, and in that time it changed the In pages 490 and 491 we find in Thoroton the following account. We come now to speak of the civil government of Nottingham, its successive grants, Mayors, sucessively, down to the present time.
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