The Aldermen of Cripplegate Ward from A.D. 1276 to A.D. 1900: Together with Some Account of the Office of Alderman, Alderman's Deputy and Common Councilman of the City of London

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J. J. Baddeley, 1900 - 255 Seiten
 

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Seite 178 - In the event of any such trader as aforesaid being adjudged a bankrupt, or taking the benefit of any Act for the relief of insolvent debtors, or...
Seite 217 - ... in the year of the reign of our sovereign lady Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Seite 212 - For the purposes of this section, the council of a borough includes the mayor, aldermen, and commons of the City of London in common council assembled, and the council of a metropolitan borough.
Seite 23 - Adam Bamme, goldsmith, mayor 1391, in a great dearth, procured corn from parts beyond the seas, to be brought hither in such abundance as sufficed to serve the city, and the countries near adjoining ; to the furtherance of which good work he took out of the orphans...
Seite 157 - CHRISTMASTIDE 1405. (p. 561.) "We do command and charge you... that you do order good and sufficient watch of folks, properly armed and arrayed, to be kept in your Ward every night during this solemn Feast of Christmas; going always, and passing, through all the streets and lanes in your said Ward, in manner as heretofore has been wont to be done. And that no persons shall go in the said city, or in the suburbs thereof, with visors or false faces, on the pain that awaits the same. And that on the...
Seite 212 - The City Seal is especially protected by the following Regulations : — It is only affixed in open Court, after formal Resolution. The Keys are different and three in number, kept respectively by the Lord Mayor, the Chamberlain, (as representing the Court of Aldermen,) and the Comptroller, (or Vice-Chamberlain, as the Representative of the Court of Common Council) ; and the Seal is only affixed to a document, after the same has been examined and signed by one of the Law Officers of the Corporation....
Seite 66 - I say I am persuaded to return this answer to you, That I cannot undertake this Government with the Title of King. And that is mine answer to this great and weighty Business...
Seite 227 - Commonalty". In 1301, an attempt was made to restrict the number of electors to twelve representatives of each Ward, but this, like other subsequent attempts, proved unsuccessful. In 1347 is met with, for the first time, a new method of procedure. In that year, one of the Sheriffs was elected by the Mayor, and the other by the Commonalty, and this prerogative of the Mayor for the time being to elect one of the Sheriffs continued to be exercised with few, if any, exceptions, down to 1640.
Seite 214 - ... where these handicrafts were carried on, with the exception of a few orphanages. II. Statement of Mr. H. Trueman Wood, Secretary of the Society of Arts, made before the Special Committee on Technical Education, June 13, 1883. Mr. H. Trueman Wood gave the Committee some information about the origin of the City and Guilds Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education, with the foundation of which he had been associated.
Seite 163 - ... to be done by more than one justice of the peace, shall, for the purposes of this act, be deemed to be a court of summary jurisdiction consisting of two or more justices, and also to be a court of summary jurisdiction sitting in a petty sessional court-house, and is in this act included in the expression

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