A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. Iff? 



mould be the mayor for the time being, 

 and that the burgefles might elect two 

 bailiffs. 



They had likewife their own prifon for 

 all petty tranfgreffions ; which prifon was 

 not to be fubject to the meriff. They 

 had alfo a merchant's guild, with this pe- 

 culiar privilege, that if the bondfman of 

 any perfon belonging to it dwelt within 

 this town, having lands, and paying feat 

 and lot for a year and a day, after that 

 time he mould not be claimed by his lord, 

 but mould remain free in the faid town. 

 The inhabitants were befides exempt 

 throughout the kingdom, from toll, laf- 

 tage, paffage, murage, pontage, ftallage, 

 danegelt, and from all other cuftoms and 

 impofitions whatfoever. And by the fame 

 charter Jews were not permitted to refide 

 within the Borough.* They had alfo 



* Grofe's Antiquities, VII, p. 9. 



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