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Alderman of the aforesaid Town willing that the said Anthony Bartlett
Esquire shall be & continue in the office of the Alderman of that Town

from the making of these presents untill Wednesday in Easter week next
ensuing & from that day till one of the head Burgesses of the aforesaid
Town have been appointed & sworn into that office according to the

Orders & Constitutions expressed & declared in these presents if the said
The First Capitall Anthony Bartlett shall so long live Wee have assigned also named

or Head Burgesses appointed & made & by these presents for us our heirs & successors do
assign name appoint & make our beloved William Mardin Gent John
Whitlock Gent Jo. Dawson Gent James Andrews Gent Thomas Pearson

Gent William Irish Gent & William Barrett Gent Inhabitants of the
aforesaid Town to be the first & modern head Burgesses of the aforesaid

The First Town to be continued in the same Offices during their natural lives unless
Secondary in the meantime [they] shall be removed from those Offices for ill
Burgesses Government or carrying themselves amiss in that behalf Wee have also

assigned named appointed & made & by these presents for us our heirs &
The time of their successors do appoint assign name & make our beloved Nicholas Ayliffe
continuance in Gyles Green John Planner the younger Richard Taylor Richard Planner

their Offices Richard Ayliffe John Cock otherwise Finge Thomas Planner Hugh Butler
Thomas Mills John Eldridge & Richard Mylom Inhabitants of the said
Town to be first & present secondary Burgesses of the Town aforesaid to

continue in that Office of Secondary Burgesses during their natural lives
unless in the meantime for evil Government or for carrying themselves in

that part they be removed from their offices or any one or more shall be
The manner of removed according to the Orders and Constitutions hereafter in these
chooseing the presents expressed & declared And further Wee will & by these presents

Alderman & by for us our heirs & successors do grant unto the said Alderman & Burgesses
whom & to their successors that the Alderman Head Burgesses & Secondary
Burgesses of the said Town for the time being or the greater part of them

from time to time fore ever have & shall have power & authority yearly &
every year upon Wednesday in Easter week every year for ever to
assemble themselves or the greater part of them in any convenient place

within the aforesaid Town to be limitted & assigned by their discretion &
there to continue until they or the greater part of them there at that time

assembled shall choose or name one of the head Burgesses of the aforesaid
The time of Town for the time being to be Alderman of that Town for one year then

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