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 196 DUNNE VED. Aldermen of the same borough, and, with the Mayor, to be, upon their Oath (to be taken before the Mayor) the Common Council of the borough. Power to the Mayor and Commonalty, with the Aldermen, or the major part of the Aldermen, to elect and admit so many of the more discreet, honest, and quiet men, inhabitants of the borough, to be burgesses and Freemen of the same borough, as to them shall seem necessary or convenient, with power also to punish, amove, and expel disobedient and offending freemen and burgesses. Power to the Mayor and Aldermen to admit into common council so many other freemen, and more honest inhabitants of the borough, as should appear necessary or convenient. And in the said borough there shall be, from time to time for ever, an officer who shall be called, and shall be, Recorder of the borough ; And two officers, or Sergeants at Mace, to be nomi- nated and elected only by the Mayor, for executing precepts, mandates, judgments, attachments, and other processes in the same borough. John Charles, Esquire, was nominated the modern Recorder, who, by himself or his sufficient Deputy, to be called the Town Clerk, was, upon his oath, to execute justice and other things belonging to the office of Recorder within the Borough. The Mayor was to be Clerk of the Market, and no Clerk of the Market of the Royal Household was to intermeddle with the office. The Mayor and Recorder were to be keepers of the Peace within the Borough, and were to provide all things which Justices of the Peace ought to provide, record, and determine in cities, except treasons, murders, and felonies. The Mayor and Commonalty were to hold two markets weekly, one on Thursday, the other on Saturday, and four fairs yearly ; namely, one on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th June (the Feast of St. John the Baptist), one on the 16th, 17th, and 18th November (St. Leonard), one on the 5th, 6th, and 7th December (St. Catherine), and one at Whitsuntide, 3 days. A court of Pie Poudre was to be held during each of these fairs. The Mayor and Commonalty, and all persons holding of the Borough, were to be free, in respect of their goods passing through all lands and dominions of the Queen, from Toll, Custom, Tonnage, Passage, Murage, Chiminage, Pannage, Last-