PLYMOUTH MEMOIRS. 
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1467- 68 29. W m Yogg [Yogge], 
1468- 69 30. Jn? Paige [Page]. 
1469- 70 31. Jn° Rowland. 
1470- 71 32. Yogg [Yogge]. 
The earle of Warwick, and y e d. of Clarence, 
brother to Ed. 4. coming out of France Land at 
plymouth (tho y e chronicle say dartm 0 .) proclaim 
K. Henry, increase in numbers, and marching to 
London, force Edward to flye into Burgundy, see 
phillip de Comines. lib. 3. cap. 5. 
1471- 72 33. W m Paige [Page]. 
1472- 73 34. Richard Bovy. 
1473- 74 35. Nic° Heynstoll [Heynscott]. 
It seems by the old Book of y e town to be 
Heynscott. 
1474- 75 36. W m Paige [Page]. 
The earliest act, or order, or constitution — all these terms are used — of 
the council extant is under this mayoralty of Paige's. It is in the Black 
Book, and enacts that no man should be free of the corporation unless 
he were a whole or half-brother of Our Lady and St. George's Guild — 
a whole brother paying 12d., and a half-brother 6d., quarterly unto the 
wardens. Each of the twenty-four was to pay yearly 8d., and each of 
the twelve 12d., under the like penalty of disfranchisement. And no 
foreigner was to be made free. The act concludes : " This was appoynted 
by the hoole Councell of the Toune And John Yogge, John Shippen 
and other foreyns putte owte of theyre freedom." This act is stated to 
have been ordered by the mayor and commonalty ; nearly all the later 
ones are ascribed to the mayor, the twelve and twenty-four, either 
without qualification, or to "the most part thereof." But there is one 
instance in the sixteenth century, in William Weekes's mayoralty, where 
it is added, " with the assent of most part of the Commons assembled in 
Guildhall." Under this act it has been usually held that Yogge, who 
had a chief share in the building of the St. Andrew's tower, and who 
had formerly been Mayor, was disfranchised ; but Mr. Brooking Kowe 
has thrown very grave doubt upon this assumption by pointing out that, 
while the mayor is called William, and the tower-builder Thomas, the 
disfranchised Yogge is called John. Unless these names are in error, 
the town cannot have been guilty of the ingratitude attributed to it. 
The priest of the Guild was appointed by the mayor and council, in the 
same manner as the town clerk. 
1475- 76 37. Mc? Heynstoll [Heynscott]. 
1476- 77 38. Nic? Heynstoll [Heynscott], 
1477- 78 39. Jn° Pollard. 
1478- 79 40. Nich. Heynstoll [Heynscott]. 
