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Port-mote the mayor, affifted by the re- 

 corder, holds pleas to any amount. He alfo 

 holds the feffions of peace, in which cri- 

 minals are tried, with the power of paffing 

 fentence of death. There is another court, 

 held at the Pentice, an antient building at 

 the centre of the city, in which the meriffs 

 are judges ; this is for civil caufes only. 

 The city Gaol is in the Northgate. In the 

 Exchange, which is a large handfome pile 

 of building, fupported on columns, the 

 body corporate hold their afTemblies for 

 public bufmefs, and the elections of mayors 

 and other officers. Here likewife the 

 mayors give their entertainments, and the 

 citizens their dancing aflemblies. 



The city returns two members to par- 

 liament, chofen by the freemen at large, 

 and the fheriff is the returning officer. 



A fine meadow lying between the walls 



and the river, called the Rood-eye, is ufed 



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