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29th September aforesaid appointed April Bishop of Exeter Boro Borough Borough of East Burgess of West Burgesses are presented Burrough Capital Burgesses Chapel charge Charles Trelawny Charter Chief Burgesses Chubb Church Churchend Common Constables constituted Court Book Court Leet Davies Gilbert default Deputy Dyer East Looe Edward entered entry Expences Free Burgesses Free Tenants Freemen granted Grubb Guildhall hath heirs Henry inhabitants John Buller John Dyer John Oben John Pope John Trelawny Jonathan Trelawny Joshua Bawden jury Keyes levied Liskeard Magistrates manor Mayor and Burgesses Mayor and Capital Mayor and Free Mayor of East Mayoralty Mynards names Nicholas oath October court office of Mayor paid Parish Payd persons Peter Westcott Philip Pope Pound quays Recorder rent repairing Robert Harell Steward sureties sworn Talland Thomas Bond Thomas Mellow Thos Town Clerk town land Treverbyn unto Walter West Looe William ye towne
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Page 159 - Adjoining the stairs of this hall are still to be seen the remains of a cage for scolding women ; but, to the credit of the sex, it has not been used of late vears.
Page 139 - Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are commissioned by Him So helpe me God.
Page 15 - Looc is a labyrinth of short, narrow, dirty alleys, above which rises the low embattled tower of a little chapel : it is mostly built on a small flat piece of ground, surrounded by the river on the west, and the sea on the south.
Page 112 - His will, preserved in the Prerogative Office, London, is in the following terms, as finally corrected by him, the orthography only being here modernized : — 25th day of March, in 14th year of the reign of our Lord James, now king of England, &c. AD 1616. THE WILL OF WILLIAM SHAKSPBABE.
Page 128 - Act, by which all dissenting ministers, on the penalty of forty pounds, who would not take an oath (that it was not lawful, upon any pretence whatever, to take arms against the king...
Page 14 - Grenwich in free and common Soccage by Fealty only — taken by Edward Hore, .George Crompton, George Gentleman, Gabriel Taylor and George Goodman and by them returned the 27 Day of August 1650. LIDFORD CASTLE. The said castle is very much in decay and almost totally ruined.
Page 97 - In 1227 the charter was renewed, and it confirmed that "he and his heirs may have for ever one fair at his manor yearly, during three days, on the eve and on the day and on the morrow of St. Matthew the Apostle, well and in *Mamecestre, pp. 382, 386, 389. peace, freely, quietly, and honourably, with all liberties and free customs to this kind of fair appertaining.
Page 13 - ... cross the seas. Howbeit they are not altogether destitute of bigger shipping, amongst which one hath successively retained the name of the George of Loo, ever since the first did a great while since, in a furious fight, take three French men of war.
Page 23 - ... will that he be one), by their warrant sealed and to be sealed with their hands subscribed, can and may send all such persons who hereafter shall be taken, arrested, attached, or found within the borough aforesaid, liberties, and precincts of the same, for treason, murder, felony, manslaughter, or robbery done or to be done, or for suspicion of felony...