A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties; and a map of Wales ..and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporationsWith an appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, as defined by the late act . me yearin which the castle was com-pleted, from Edward I., whoconfer
A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties; and a map of Wales ..and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporationsWith an appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, as defined by the late act . me yearin which the castle was com-pleted, from Edward I., whoconferred upon them con-siderable privileges, and as-signed to the corporationthe estates of four of theprincipal proprietors of land,whom he removed by ex-Corporate Seal. change, on the erection ofthe castle, to be held by them in capite; and, amongvarious other immunities, he granted them a free prisonwithin the castle, with descent of property to theirheirs, whether they died testate or intestate. Thecharter of Edward I. was confirmed and extended byone of Elizabeth, in the fourth year of her reign, underwhich the government is vested in a mayor, recorder,two bailiffs, and twenty-one capital burgesses, assistedby a town-clerk, coroner, clerk of the market, water-bailiff, two Serjeants at mace, two constables, and otherofficers. The mayor and bailiffs are annually chosenfrom among the capital burgesses by the corporation,on the Monday before the feast of St. Michael, andsworn into office on the Monday following; and, with. BE A BEA the exception of the recorder, who holds his office forlife, all the other officers are appointed by the corpo-ration at the same time. The elective franchise wasconferred in the 27th of Henry VIII., and the firstreturn was made in the 33rd of the same reign, in con-junction with Newborough, to which town the assizesand sessions for the county were removed in the reignof Henry VII., upon a false representation to this mo-narch, after they had been held a
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