The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

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Corporation Regalia.
The seals of the Corporation are the Common Seal, which is also called the
The Common Seal. The Admiralty Seal.
1696. The Admiral's mace mentioned. before the Mayor's seat in the church), to be set
1725. A new silver oar, gilt, was bought, "to be up, suitable to hold the new maces which were this
carried by the Serjeant-at-Mace ofthe Port," before year ordered, " about the size of the old ones,
the Admiralty, as an ensign of the Admiralty Juris- which were worn out." The old ones to be taken in
diction, granted to the Corporation, instead of the part payment for the new ones. The cost of the
iron oar now used. This silver oar cost 341. 13s. new ones is not stated. They weighed 254oz.,
4d., and weighed 51 oz. 5 dwt.; it sold for 281. and sold for 821. lls. The two small old maces
16s. 7d. in 1837. weighed 29 oz. 3 dwt., and sold for 7l. 17s. 4d.
In 1727, a new mace.case (to fix the maces in
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