Memorials of Barnstaple: Being an Attempt to Supply the Want of a History of that Ancient Borough |
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Aldermen almshouse amongst ancient Anno annuity annum appears appointed Athelstan Bailiffs Barum Beaple bearing date Bideford Bishop's Tawton Borough aforesaid Borough and Parish Borough of Barnstaple Braunton Bremridge bridge Capital Burgesses Castle charity Charter Chichester Church Clerk Common Council Corporation County Court customs Devon ditto Dodderidge Edward election England erected Exeter feet Fremington George gift given granted Harris hath heirs and successors Henry Ilfracombe inhabitants James John John Peard Kingdom of England lands late laws lease liberties Litchdon London Lord the King Maior Manor Market Mary Mayor mayor and aldermen mentioned Nicholas Nicholas Hooper paid Parish aforesaid parish of Barnstaple Parliament Peard persons Pilton poor port pounds premises present Priory Quay received Recorder reign rent Richard Richard Harris Robert sayd shillings Sir John Chichester Street Tawstock tenements thereof Thomas Thomas Harris Tolls town of Barnstaple trustees William yearly
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Page 258 - To have a common seal. For a corporation, being an invisible body, cannot manifest its intentions by any personal act or oral discourse; it therefore acts and speaks only by its common seal.
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Page 241 - July in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Fourth by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom...
Page 516 - JSarnstaple, in the year 1688, " and was the youngest child of Mr. WILLIAM GAY, " the second son of JOHN GAY, Esq. of Frithelstock, " near Great Torrington, of an ancient and worthy " family, who had been resident in this county several " centuries. He, (the subject of this memoir,) with " his elder brother JONATHAN, and two sisters, were " left orphans very early in life ; their father and " mother both dying in or about the year 1694. The " elder brother JONATHAN inheriting the paternal " estate,...
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Page 259 - By forfeiture ot its charter, through negligence or abuse of its franchises; in which case the law judges that the body politic has broken the condition upon which it was incorporated, and thereupon the incorporation is void.
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