The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol; . r to their honour. Great and numerous are the charities in the difpofal and management ofthe mayor and aldermen, yet the poor of the city for their weekly fupport areunder the immediate rule of the governor deputy governor afTiflants andguardians of the poor incorporated by a6l of parliament, of which fee in parifh below.—But befides the mayor, aldermen and common-councilof which the corporation confid, and who form the civil government of thecity (a regular lifl of whom from theearliefl time will be given below in theannals) ther
The history and antiquities of the city of Bristol; . r to their honour. Great and numerous are the charities in the difpofal and management ofthe mayor and aldermen, yet the poor of the city for their weekly fupport areunder the immediate rule of the governor deputy governor afTiflants andguardians of the poor incorporated by a6l of parliament, of which fee in parifh below.—But befides the mayor, aldermen and common-councilof which the corporation confid, and who form the civil government of thecity (a regular lifl of whom from theearliefl time will be given below in theannals) there are others, who refieft an honour upon the city by their diflin-guifiicd office, namely the members of parliament, chofen and fent up by thefuffrages of the freemen to watch over their liberties and to tranfaft the na-tional bufincfs and thofc affairs the city may be particularly interefled in. Briflol was a borough at the Conqueft, before Mcnry ifls time, as appearsby a charter of his without date, wherein the inhabitants are filled by the name.
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