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determined Alderman & Head Burgesses of the Town or three of them by such manner
of proceedings & wayes according to the Law & custom of our Kingdom

of England by such as & so far forth as shall be agreeable to our Laws &
in ample & in such like manner & form as in any other Court of Record in
All processes to be any Borough or other Town Incorporate within this Kingdom of England

executed by the as usual & accustomed or may or ought to be done And moreover Wee
Serjeants Will & for us our heirs & successors Wee ordain that the Serjeants of the

aforesaid Town for the time being do & execute all impannelled Jurys of
Inquest attachments precepts mandate Warrant Judgement process &
whatsoever other things to be done concerning the aforesaid causes within

the aforesaid Town the Libertys & preccints thereof as they shall be
charged according to the necessity of the Law & so far forth as is usual or

ought to be done in the causes in any Court of record in any Borough or
Town Corporate within this Kingdom of England And further Wee Will &
A Guildhall by these presents for us our heirs & successors Wee grant to the aforesaid

Alderman & Burgesses of the aforesaid Town & their successors that they
& their successors may have a Guildhall in the Town aforesaid Wee Will
also & by these presents for us our heirs & successors Wee grant to the

Prison or Gaol said Alderman & Burgesses of the aforesaid Town & to their successors
that they henceforth for ever may & shall have within the aforesaid Town a
prison or Gaol to imprison retain & keep safe Felons & Trespassers &

other malefactors & prisoners therein from time to time until they ought to
be delivered by due course of Law & this without gainsaying trouble or lett

of us our heirs & successors or other Sheriffes Bayliffes Officers or
Ministers of ours our heirs or successors whosoever And further Wee Will
by these presents for us our heirs & successors Wee grant unto the

A Markett upon aforesaid Alderman & Burgesses of the Town aforesaid & their successors
Thursday in the that they & their successors may hold & have & keep & have power to
Week hold & keep within the Town aforesaid every year for ever one Marcate

every Tuesday in every severall week throughout the year for everr to be
Three Fairs in kept as they have had it heretofore And also that three fairs the first of
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every yeare these fairs to begin on the day or feast of S Barnaby & to be kept & endure
that whole day & the second fair to begin on the aforesaid second day of
November commonly called the feast of Alsoules & to be continued &

A Court of Pye endure that whole day & the third of those three faires to begin the
Powder & all Thursday next before the Lords day called commonly in English Shrove

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