. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. sessionof 1833, an act was obtained for improi ing and enlargingthe market-places in the city, and rendering the ap-proaches to t iuMii more commodious \ also For regulatingand maintaining the se
. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. sessionof 1833, an act was obtained for improi ing and enlargingthe market-places in the city, and rendering the ap-proaches to t iuMii more commodious \ also For regulatingand maintaining the several markets and fairs held within the city and it< suburb* The earliest charter bestowed upon the inhabitants wasthat by Henry 11., confirming all the liberties they held in the tune of Henry 1. Richard 1., in the l-t I - i. ign, granted them an exemption from toll and all customs in England and Normandy ; and King John, inthe first of his reign, gave them a charter ratifying allformer privileges, ami conferring the city on the inh i ants, mbjed to a Ice (arm rent of £100, payable halt- YORK YORK yearly into the treasury. Confirmatory charters were alsogranted by Henry III., Edward II. and III., and RichardII., which last monarch, by a second charter, erectedthe city, with the district adjoining it, into a county ofitself, dignified the mayor with the title of Lord, and Corporation in lieu of the three bailiffs, appointed two were subsequently obtained from Henry VI.,Edward IV., Henry VII., Elizabeth, and Charles I. andII. The present corporation consists of a lord mayor,12 aldermen, and 36 councillors, appointed under the act5th and 6th of William IV., cap. 76 ; the city, formerlyincluding only four, is now divided into six wards, andthe number of magistrates is fifteen. The freedom isinherited by all the sons of freemen on their coming ofage, and acquired by apprenticeship to a resident free-man. The city first exercised the elective franchise i
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