Note 1154b — PART IV. From the Reformation to the present time. (continued 8)
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The mayor, recorder, aldermen, common-council-men and all other officers and their deputies, take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy when they enter into office, and thereby have all the laws, liberties, usages, & customs, granted and confirmed to them, without lett or molestation.—See Charles 2nds first Charter; also Mackerell, 213.