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THE MAYORALTY OF TRURO, A.D. 1538—17: 

 By p. JENNINGS. 



" Of our more abundant grace we will and for us our heirs 

 and successors by these presents do grant to the Mayor and 

 Burgesses of the Borough aforesaid and their successors, that the 

 same Mayor and Capital Burgesses and Common Council of the 

 same Borough for the time being, or the greater part of them, 

 from time to time, at all future times, may and shall have power 

 and authority annually and every year on the ninth day of 

 October to nominate and assign, and that they may and shall be 

 able to nominate and assign one man then being an Alderman 

 of the same Borough, before the other Aldermen and Capital 

 Burgesses of the same Borough then and there present, as Mayor 

 of the Borough aforesaid for the year next ensuing, which man 

 so elected to the office of Mayor after his corporal oath in due 

 manner made and taken, shall bear the said office of Mayor of 

 the Borough aforesaid for one whole year then next ensuing (to 

 wit) from the aforesaid ninth day of October to the ninth 

 day of October then next following, and from the same 

 day until some other person be elected to the same office, 

 and shall be duly sworn faithfully to execute the said 

 office, and if any one hereafter so elected as Mayor of the 

 Borough aforesaid, to whom the election shall be made known, 

 shall refuse to take upon him the office aforesaid without 

 reasonable cause, that then it shall be lawful for the Mayor 

 of the Borough aforesaid, and Aldermen and other Capital 

 Burgesses of the same Borough, or the greater part of them, to 

 commit such person refusing to prison, there to remain until he 

 shall be willing to exercise the said office, or to impose a Fine 

 upon him, as to them shall seem fit, and to detain him in prison 

 until he be willing to render such fine unto them." 



" Know ye, that we of our more ample and abundant grace, 

 and of our certain knowledge and mere motion, have assigned, 

 nominated, and made, and ordained our beloved Thomas Burges, 

 an honest man and inhabitant of our said borough, to be the 

 first and modern Mayor of the same Borough of Truro." 



