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Chamberlains.
ALbeit the Office of a Chamberlain, be very Ancient and usual in other Cities within this Realm, especially in London, yet was it here erected but of late years, and therefore not as yet reduced to that perfection which 'tis elsewhere: Queen Eliza∣beth in the Third year of Her Reign, was pleased to grant unto this City a Charter for Orphans, which in Her Fifth year was con∣firmed by Act of Parliament, of much more Antiquity this Offi∣cer cannot well pretend himself to be: The first person elected into the said Office was.
- 1. John Hooker. 21. Septembris 2 Mariae, 1554.
- 2. William Tickell. 15. Septembris 43 Elizabethae, 1601.
- 3. John Martin. 7. Junii 11 Jacob••, 1612.
- 4. William Prowss. 26. Junii 22 Jacobi, 1624.
- 5. Richard Tickell. 21. Aprilis 5 Caroli, 1629.
- 6. John Crewkern. 14. Aprilis 12 Caroli, 1636.
- 7. John Dore. 1. Decembris 22 Caroli, 1646.
- 8. Richard Izacke. 25. Octobris 6 Caroli 2.1653.