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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Sumersete.
Rex tenet[2]Bade T. R. E. Geldabat pro XX Hid. Quando Scira Geldabat. Ibi habet Rex LXIIII Burgenses reddentes IIII Lib. & quater Viginti & X Burgenses aliorum hominum reddunt ibi LX Solid.
The King holds Bath, in the Time of King Edward it was Taxed at the rate of Twenty Hides, when the Shire was Taxed. There the King hath Sixty four Burgesses, paying him four Pound by the Year, and there are Ninety under the Protection of other Men which pay Sixty Shillings yearly, nothing more of this Town or its Bur∣gesses.
In[3]Tanton there is only mention of Sixty Four Burgesses which paid Thirty Two Shillings, but there are many Privileges noted to belong to that Town then.