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Excerpt from A Collection of Original Letters From the Bishops to the Privy Council, 1564: With Returns of the Justices of the Peace and Others Within Their Respective Dioceses, Classified According to Their Religious Convictions
Take for instance the charters granted to Leicester, 1588, 1599 (j Thompson, pp. 285 and 307) in the second the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses are all named; so too at Newbury (money, p. 228) in 1596, the mayor, six aldermen, and twenty four capital burgesses are singled out by name at Beverley (poulson, p. 12) the charter of 15 Eliz. Names the governors to be called the Common Council, they are to appoint to all vacancies. An interesting collection of cases of this kind might be made to illustrate the growth of oligarchy in English towns.
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