3IO HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



time being, shall be coroner and clerk of the market within ye sd borough and 

 town and the liberties thereof, giving and hereby granting unto sd mayor and 

 deputy mayor for the time being full power and authority to exercise and exe- 

 cute the said office and offices of coroner and clerk of the market in the s d 

 borough and town and the liberties thereof in as large and ample manner as any 

 other coroner or clerk of the market doth or may lawfully execute the like office 

 or offices in any other town or liberties within this our province of N. York. 

 And farther, of our especial grace, certain knowledg, and meer motion, wee do 

 by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, give and grant unto the s a 

 mayor, aldermen and common ci tuncil of the sd borough and town of Westches- 

 ter afores'd. and their success' 3 forever, that they and their successors shall and 

 may from time to time return and send one discreet burgess of the s' 1 town and 

 borough into every general assembly hereafter to be summoned oi'holdcn within 

 this our province of N. York, which burgess so returnd and sent shall be receivd 

 into the house of deputies or members of the sd house and have and enjoy such 

 priviledges as any other of the sd members have or ought to have. And lastly our 

 express will and pleasure is, and we do by these presents for us, our heirs and 

 successors, give and grant unto sd mayor, aldermen, and common council of the 

 s d borough, and their successors forever, that these our letters patent or the inrol- 

 ment thereof in our secretaire's office of our sd province, shall be good, available, 

 and effectual in the law to all intents, constructions and purposes, against us, 

 our heirs, and successors, without any other. licence, grant, or confirmation from 

 us, our heirs, or successors hereafter, by the sd mayor, aldermen, and common 

 council, or their successors, or any of them, to be had and obtained notwith- 

 standing the not recitall or miss-recitall, not nameing or miss-nameing of the 

 s J offices, ffranchises, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and other the prem- 

 ises or any of them : and notwithstanding that no writ of ad quod damnum hath 

 issued forth to enquire of the premises or any of them before the sealing of these 

 presents, any statute, act, ordinance, or provision, or any matter or tiling what- 

 soever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. In witness whereof we 

 have caused these our Letters to be made pattent. Witness our trusty and well 

 beloved Benjamin Fletcher our cap n gen 1 and govenor in chief of our sd prov- 

 ince of New T York and the territories and tracts of land depending thereon in 

 America, and vice admiral of the same, our lieutenant and commander-in-chief 

 of the militia and of all the fforsses by sea and land within our Colony of Con- 

 necticut, and of all the fforts and places of strength within the same. At our ffort 

 at New York, this sixteenth day of April, in the eighth year of our reign. « 



Yivaxt Rex et Regina." 



Another entry relates to the swearing in of the first Aldermen and 

 Common Council of the borough. 



''Be it remembered that upon the sixth day of June in the 8th year of his 

 Majestie's reign, 1696, appeared before me Caleb Heathcote, Mayor of the 

 borough town of Westchester ; William Barnes, John Hunt and John Bayley, 

 gentlemen, Aldermen of the said corporation ; and Robert Huestis, Samuel Huestis, 



a From a certified copy of the original, in the possession of the late Ogden Hammond, Esq. 



