By the late F. A. Carringfon, Esq. 59 



Capital Biirgesses, and twelve other ' honest and discreet men,' inhabitants, to 

 be called Secondary Burgesses, and the Alderman, Capital and Secondary Bur- 

 gesses to be the Common Council, to assist the Alderman, and with the Alder- 

 man to have power to make Bye Laws ; Anthony Bartlett, Esq. to be the first 

 Alderman. 



"William Martin, John Whitlock, John Dawson, James Andrews, Thomas 

 Pearson, William Irish, William Barrett, all gentlemen, inhabitants, to be 

 first Capital Burgesses ; and Nicholas AylifFe, Gyles Green, John Planner, the 

 younger, Richard Taylor, Richard Planner, Richard AyliiFe, John Cock other- 

 wise Finge,* Thomas Planner, Hugh Butler, Thomas Mills, John Eldridge, and 

 Richard Mjdom, inhabitants, were named to be first Secondary Burgesses, and 

 were to continue First and Secondary Burgesses for their lives unless removed 

 from office. 



" That on the Wednesday in Easter week, the Aldermen and Common 

 Council choose one of the head Burgesses to be Alderman for one whole year, 

 and the Alderman be sworn on the day of his election or within one month after- 

 wards before the Steward of the Court Leet in full court. 



'* That there shall be one very eminent man who shall be and shall be called 

 High Steward of the town of Wokingham ('Vnus preclarus vir qui erit et voca- 

 bitur capitalis seneschallus ville de Wokingham in com. Bark, et Wiltes'), and 

 that Sir Henry Neville, Knight, shall be the first High Steward. 



" That the Alderman and Burgesses and their successors shall elect one 

 honest and discreet man skilled in the laws of England, to be Recorder. (' Vnnm 

 probum et discretum virum in legibus Anglic peritum.') 



'•The Alderman, High Steward, Recorder, and the predecessor of every 

 Alderman, to be Justices of the Peace. 



" That there shall be one honest and discreet man to be Common Clerk of the 

 said town, and that George WiUington, gentleman, be the first Common Clerk. 



" That two officers shall be chosen by the Alderman and Capital Burgesses, 

 or the greater part of them, who are to be called Serjeants at the Mace, who 

 are to execute processes and empannel Juries. 



" That there shall be a Court of Record the Friday in every week before the 

 Alderman or Recorder, and the Capital Burgesses or any three of them, of all 

 pleas arising out of whatever causes within the town not exceeding the sum of 

 Ten Poimds. 



" That the Alderman, Burgesses of the aforesaid town, and their successors 

 may have a Guildhall in tbe town aforesaid, and may and shall have within 

 the aforesaid town a Prison or Gaol, to imprison, retain, and keep safe Felons 

 and Trespassers and other malefactors and prisoners. 



" That there be a market on every Tuesday, and three fairs; viz. on the 

 Feast of St. Barnaby, on the 2nd November, and on the Thursday before Shrove 

 Sunday, with a Court Pedis Pulverizati ('of Pie Pouder'), with all liberties, 

 free customs, tolls, stallages, piccage, &c. : and the King also grants to the 

 Alderman and Burgesses all lands, tenements, wastes, void gi'ounds, commons 

 and hereditaments, which they had held before." 



• As to the alias not being a mark of illegitimacy but of the person's ancestors having married an 

 heiress, see Mr. Kite's Wilts Brasses, p. 104. 



