An historical treatise of cities and burghs or boroughs shewing their original and from whom they received their liberties, privileges and immunities, what they were and what constituted a free burgh & free burgesses : as also shewing when they first sent their representatives to Parliament : with a concurrent discourse of most matters and things incident, or relating thereto / by Rob. Brady, Dr. in physick.
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An historical treatise of cities and burghs or boroughs shewing their original and from whom they received their liberties, privileges and immunities, what they were and what constituted a free burgh & free burgesses : as also shewing when they first sent their representatives to Parliament : with a concurrent discourse of most matters and things incident, or relating thereto / by Rob. Brady, Dr. in physick.
Author
Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700.
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London :: Printed for Samuel Lowndes ...,
MDCXC [1690]
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Municipal government -- England -- History.
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"An historical treatise of cities and burghs or boroughs shewing their original and from whom they received their liberties, privileges and immunities, what they were and what constituted a free burgh & free burgesses : as also shewing when they first sent their representatives to Parliament : with a concurrent discourse of most matters and things incident, or relating thereto / by Rob. Brady, Dr. in physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29173.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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Northantscire.
Tempore[2]Regis Edwardi fuere in Northantone in Dominio Regis LX Burgenses habentes Totidem Mansiones, ex his sunt modo XIV Vaste. Residue sunt XLVI. praeter hos sunt Modo in Novo Burgo XL Burgenses in Dominio Regis Willielmi.
In the Time of King Edward there were in Northamton 60 De∣measn-Burgesses of the King, or 60 Burgesses Vassals to him; that had so many Mansions, of which 14 are now waste. The Residue are 46. Besides these, there are now in the New Burg 40 De∣measn-Burgesses of King William. This is all I find either concern∣ing this as a Burg, or its Burgesses; only a little further 'tis said, Burgenses de Hantone reddunt Vicecomiti per Annum XXX Lib. & X Sol. hoc pertinet ad firmam ipsius. The Burgesses of Hamton pay to the Sheriff 30 Lib. and 10 s. by the year, and it belongs to his Farm, (that is, his Farm of the whole Shire.)