PLYMOUTH MEMOIRS. 
565 
being Admiral of the Dutch fleet then in this port, w ch brought 
hither the P. of Orange, was chosen promisuosly with S r Jn° 
Maynard by the freemen & freeholders, and on the preferment of 
Herbert to y e Lords house m r Jn° Granville son to y e E of Bathe 
& m r Martyn Rider Strove for It, and on a pole of freemen & 
freeholders, this Eeturne was given ni r Granville by m r W Symom 
the Mayor. Rider petitioned against it, and on an hearing m r 
Cotton an old member being witnes for m r Rider accidentaly de- 
claring that y e town was a Burrough, and Elected by freeholders 
befor the Incorporation of it; the comitte awarded that they were the 
true views, & m r Granvill having the majority of them, was duly 
Elected ; no Record of this was made In y e Journal only in General 
terms, that m r Granville was duly elected. Upon the death of s r 
Jn° Maynard in m r Paige's mayoralty; m r Jn° Trelawny. & m r 
J osiah Calmady were Eivals for the place : freemen, & freeholders 
were polled, & the choice' fell on m r Trelawny, that Parliam 1, being 
dissolved, In R Berrys mayoralty, the election was made, and a 
pole taken of freeholders, as well as freemen, who chose m r Jn° 
Granville, & m r George Parker, and y e Return made, and signed by 
several free holders, as well as the Mayor, &c. one of w ch was 
m r Jn° Warren, merchant, who was only a freeholder, but 169^. 
Another -chartar being gott, and he though a Presbyterian, made 
an Alderman and 1697 Mayor, did July 30 1698, the parliam* 
being dissolved choose Mayor Gent Trelawny, Governor of the 
Cittadef, & Cap 1 Jn° Rogers, by a vote of freemen, and freeholders, 
but made his Return by, and In the name of y e Mayor & comonalty 
only, & left out the freeholders, the reason, & design of it being 
justly supposed to be, that ag* next Election they of the Chamber, 
might make freemen enough of such as they would be sure would 
chose as they should be Instructed, for advantage of y e good old 
cause, and ruin of the church of England, w ch God preserve from 
such Designes. written Aug 1 25 1698. J. Y[onge]. 
[in margin] Alle Elections since have been by Freemen & 
Freeholders & y e Freeholders right not so much as questioned. 
A copy of the Water Act of Elizabeth follows, with the note that the 
work was performed by Drake to his " great Honor and the Inexpressible 
benefit of this town and Haven : hy it publick, and privat Conduits are 
supplyed, the Cannals of y e Street filld & cleansed, the Mills (which yeild 
great Rent) driven, and y e adjacent Lands watered, and without w ch Plim° 
had never grown to that bignes Its now of." 
