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Perfons as are Burgelfcs, and then prefent in Court, 
to the Number of Fourteen. Thefe being all fworn 
neither to eat nor drink, till they, or Twelve of 
them, have made Choice of Two fit Perfons (who 
have not been Bailiffs for Three Years before) toferve 
the Office of Bailiffs for the Year enfuing, are locked 
up together, until agreed 5 which hath often occa- 
fioned very long and tedious Fallings, even to the 
Prejudice of their Healths : However, when they 
are agreed, they make Report of the Perfons they 
have elected, and they are fworn into Office upon 
Michaelmas- day e . 
This Borough, as others, has a Recorder, Town- 
Clerk, and Two Rcprcfentatives in Parliament. 
The Town is divided by a ftately Stone Bridge f 
over the Severn into Two unequal Parts ; the leffer 
Part, that lies upon the E aft of the River, is called 
the low Town, and confifts of Two Streets, one ex- 
tending from the Bridge to the very Foot of Morfe> 
and goes by the Name of St. Johns-Jlreet , from a 
Religious Houfe there in.Times of Popery, dedicated 
to St. John the Baptift. 
The River abounds with divers forts of the moft 
excellent Fiffi, as Salmon , Pike , Shad, Trout , Grey- 
ling , Flounders , Eels, Chub , Gudgeon , and what goes 
here by the Name of Samlet , a fmall Fifh fpotted 
with Red, not much unlike the Trout ; only the Spots 
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c The Bailiffs for the Time being are Juftices of the Peace, and 
Lords of the Manor for the faid Town and Liberties, which are 
extenfive, being one way Six or Seven Miles. 
f This Bridge has Seven Arches, and formerly had a Draw, Port- 
cullis, and other Engines of Defence: The old Gatc-houfe upon it is 
.Hill Handing, and feveral other Houles have been built upon its Piers. 
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