168 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



another privilege, which was, that - none 

 of the burgeffes could be convicted of any 

 crime committed between the rivers Conwy 

 and Dyfy, unlefs by a jury of their own 

 townfmen.* The princes of Wales had 

 here their chancery, exchequer, andjuf- 

 ticiary of North Wales. -f 



The town is at prefent governed by a 

 mayor, one alderman, two bailiffs, a 

 town-clerk, and two fergeants at mace. 

 The reprefentative for the place is elected 

 by it's burgeffes, and thofe of Conwy, 

 Pwllheli, Nefyn, and Criccaeth. The 

 right of voting is in every one reiident or 

 non-refident, who has been admitted to 

 his freedom. J 



* Pennant's Tour, II. 218. 



t Gibfon's Camden, 665. Wynne's Memoirs 

 of the Gvvydir family, 417. 



^ Pennant II. 219. who quotes Willis's Notitia 

 Parliam. III. part I. 76. 



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