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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
Volume 748, Page 6   View pdf image
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(6)                                     1671

       And mere motion and as much as in no Lies for us and our
       heires Doe Graunt to our welbeloved the Inhabitants of that
       Place called and Knowne by the name of Saint Maries in the
       County of Saint Maries that that Place Shall bee Erected into
       a Citty w.ch Shall Containe A mile in Length Square w.thin the
       Places Circuits and Precints thereof  And wee Doe hereby
       Found Erect and Establish the Same a Citty for Evermore
       And wee Doe hereby Graunt and Declare that the sd Citty
       Shall bee for Ever hereafter called and named by the name of
       Saint Maries and by noe Other name And that the sd
       Citty of Saint Maries Shall be an Incorporated Citty of one
       Major one person Learned in the Law by the name of a Recorder
       Six Aldermen and Seaven Comon Councillmen Inhabiteing
       with in the Citty for Evermore  And that the Said Major
       Recorder Aldermen and Comon Councilmen Shall bee A
       Body Incorporate and one Comunity for Ever in Right
       and name And ^that^ they the sd Major Aldermen and Common
       Councillmen Shall have and Beare the name of Major Aldermen
       and Comon Councill of the Citty of Saint Maries and
       by the same name they Shall bee called and named and
       by noe other name ^and that the same name^ they Shall bee persons able and
       Capeable att Law to bee sued and to sue and to Act Execute
       and Doe as a body Incorporate and to have Succession for
       Ever and to that End to have a Comon Seale and that Philip
       Calvert Esquire one of the Inhabitants of the Said Citty
       Shall for the Present bee and bee named major of the
       said Citty for the Ensueing Yeare and John Morecroft
                                                                      (Recorder)


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