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King George the First granted a protection to certain Recusants, dated 6th April, 1716; signed by Devonshire, Townshend, James Stanhope and others.

The following is taken from a scarce book, entituled, " Names of the Roman Catholics, Nonjurors, who refused to take the Oaths to his late Majesty, King George the First." Taken from an original manuscript of a gentleman who was principal clerk to the Accomptant General's Office, belonging to the Commissioners for the forfeited Estates of England and Wales, after the Rebellion in the year 1715.

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John Marshall, of Spinkhill, surgeon
George Green, of Booths, yeoman
Henry Bockin, of Tiddeswall, yeoman
Richard Hardy, of Tiddeswall, yeoman
Thomas Furnis, of Hathersage, yeoman
Robert Freeman, of Weston, gent.
Anne Savage, of Weston, Com. Ebor.
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John Bowdon, of Beighton-fields, yeoman
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Katherine Warrington, of Pinkhill
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Taken from a Roll of Estreat Indented, of the first payment of the two subsidies within the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, the 1st of King C. (1625.) Commissioners, Sir Gilbert Kniveton, Sir Richard Harpur, and Sir Francis Coke, Knts. Penes, Mr. Jonathan Sheppard of Miln Hay, in 1687; in 1829 Penes, W. Bateman, Esq. F. A. S. of Middleton.

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(No. 15.)

An authentic Copy of the Charter which King Charles the Second granted to the Mayor and Burgesses of the Borough of Derby, in the County of Derby.

CHARLES the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth TO ALL TO WHOM these present letters shall come GREETING WHEREAS our borough of Derby in our county of Derby is an antient and populous borough and from the tiine whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary hath been a Town incorporate and the Mayor and Burgesses of the Borough of Derby aforesaid and their Predecessors have had and held and used and enjoyed divers liberties franchises privileges immunities and pre-eminencies as well by charters of divers of our progenitors and predecessors late kings and queens of England to them heretofore made and granted and confirmed as by reason of sundry prescriptions and customs in the same borough time out of mind used AND WHEREAS we are informed that there are certain ambiguities in several charters and letters patents to them heretofore made by reason that some things therein contained were not plainly contained nor with words proper enough granted for the good rule government and benefit of the borough aforesaid according to the true meaning of the same charters or letters patents AND WHEREAS our well beloved subjects the now mayor and burgesses of the borough of Derby aforesaid have surrendered unto us their aforesaid letters patent and charters and all their liberties and privileges whatsoever which said surrender we have accepted and by these presents do accept and have most humbly besought us that all and singular the liberties privileges immunities and grants of all our progenitors and ancestors to the same mayor and burgesses and their predecessors by any name or names of incorporation made or granted WE would Vouchsafe to grant a new with the addition augmentation alteration and explication of certain liberties grants privileges immunities and franchises as to us should seem more proper for the good government and common advantage of the same borough KNOW YE THEREFORE that we willing and desiring the augmentation and amendment of the borough aforesaid and also the good name state and governinent thereof as aforesaid that from henceforth for ever in the same borough and in the precincts thereof continually be had one certain and undoubted manner and form of and for the conservation of the peace and good rule and government of the people there and that the borough aforesaid from henceforth for ever may be and remain a borough of peace and tranquillity to the terror of the wicked and to the reward of the good and that our peace and the rest of our acts of justice there without further delay may be observed WE of our special grace certain knowledge and mere motion HAVE willed ordained constituted and granted and by these presents for ourselves our Heirs and successors DO will ordain constitute declare and grant that the said borough from henceforth may and shall be a free borough of itself and that the burgesses of the said borough (by whatsoever name they were heretofore incorporated) and their successors from henceforth for ever may and shall be by virtue of these presents one body corporate and politick in deed fact and name by the name of the mayor and burgesses of the borough of Derby in the county of Derby and them by the name of the mayor and burgesses of the borough of Derby in the county of Derby into one body corporate and politick in deed fact and name really and fully for us our Heirs and Successors WE do erect make ordain constitute confirm and declare by these presents and that by the same name they may have perpetual succession and that they by the name of the mayor and burgesses of the borough of Derby in the county of Derby may and shall be in all future times persons fit and in

law capable to have acquire receive and possess lands tenements liberties privileges jurisdictions franchises and hereditaments of whatsoever kind nature or species they shall be to them and their successors in fee and perpetuity and also goods and chattels and all other things of what kind nature or species soever they shall be and also to give grant demise and assign lands tenements and hereditaments goods and chattels and all and singular other matters and things to do and execute by the name aforesaid and that by the same name of the mayor and burgesses of the borough of Derby in the county of Derby may be enabled and impowered to plead and be impleaded answer and be answered defend and be defended in whatsoever courts and places and before whatsoever judges and justices and other persons and officers of us and of our Heirs and Successors in all suits plaints pleas causes matters and demands real personal and mixed and others whatsoever as well spiritual as temporal of what kind nature or species whatsoever they be in the same manner and form as other our liege subjects of this our kingdom of England persons fit and in law capable to plead and be impleaded answer and be answered defend and be defended and to have acquire receive possess give grant and demise may be impowered and enabled AND THAT the mayor and burgesses of the borough of Derby in the county of Derby and their successors may for ever have a common seal to serve for all causes and things whatsoever by them and their successors to be done and that it shall and may be lawful for the same mayor and burgesses and their successors from time to time to break change and make new the said seal at their pleasure as to them shall seem meet AND FURTHER we will and by these presents for ourselves our heirs and successors DO grant and ordain that from henceforth there may and shall be within the borough aforesaid one of the most honest and discreet burgesses of the borough aforesaid to be chosen in manner hereafter in these presents mentioned who shall be and be called mayor of the borough aforesaid AND that likewise there may and shall be within the borough aforesaid from time to time nine burgesses of the borough aforesaid and always dwelling and residing within the borough aforesaid (besides the mayor of the borough aforesaid) to be chosen in manner hereafter in these presents mentioned who shall be and be styled aldermen of the borough aforesaid and that likewise from henceforth for ever there may and shall be within the borough aforesaid from time to time fourteen burgesses of the borough aforesaid and continually inhabiting and residing within the same borough to be chosen in manner hereafter in these presents mentioned who shall be and be stiled brothers of the borough aforesaid and that likewise from henceforth for ever there may and shall be within the borough aforesaid from time to time fourteen other burgesses of the borough aforesaid and continually inhabiting and dwelling within the same borough to be chosen in manner hereafter in these presents mentioned who shall be and be styled capital burgesses of the borough aforesaid AND we will and by these presents for ourselves our heirs and successors DO grant that the aforesaid aldermen fourteen brothers and fourteen capital burgesses shall be and be called the common council of the same borough and shall from time to time be aiding to and assisting the mayor of the same borough of Derby aforesaid for the time being in all causes and matters touching or any ways concerning the borough aforesaid AND FURTHER we will and by these presents for ourselves our heirs and successors DO grant to the aforesaid mayor and burgesses of the borough aforesaid for the time being and their successors that the mayor of the borough

aforesaid for the time being and such burgesses of the administer the said oath AND ALSO we will and have borough aforesaid for the time being who may or here- nominated and by these presents for us our heirs and after shall be and be called the common council of the successors DO will and nominate our well beloved borough aforesaid or the major part of them (of which Roger Newton Gentleman to be second mayor of the said major part we will that the mayor of the borough borough aforesaid willing that the said Roger Newton aforesaid for the time being shall be one) may and shall the office of mayor of the same borough upon the feast have full power and authority to grant constitute or- of St. Michael the archangel which will be in the year dain and make from time to time all such reasonable of our Lord according to the computation of the laws statutes and ordinances as to them (in their discre- Church of England 1682 or upon the day of the death tions as before mentioned) shall seem meet good whole- of the aforesaid Edward Walker which shall first hap. some profitable honest and requisite for the good rule pen shall have and exercise and contique in that office and government of the burgesses artificers and inhabi- until the feast of St. Michael the archangel which will tants of the borough aforesaid for the time being and be in the year of our Lord according to the computafor declaring in what manner and order the aforesaid tion of the Church of England 1683 and from the same mayor aldermen brothers capital burgesses and artifi- feast until another burgess of the borough aforesaid cers inhabitants burgesses and resiants of the borough shall be preferred and sworn to the office of mayor of aforesaid shall bemean carry and behave themselves in the borough aforesaid According to the ordinances and their offices vocations and employments within the bo- constitutions hereafter in these presents expressed and rough aforesaid and the limits thereof and otherwise declared if the same Roger Newton shall so long live on for the further good and public benefit rule and gov oath upon the holy evangelists before the last preceernment of the same borough and the victualling dent mayor and recorder of the borough aforesaid for thereof and for the levying money for the use and the time being the said office of mayor well and faithbenefit of us our heirs and successors or to the neces- fully to execute being first taken To which said last sary service of the same borough and also for the bet- precedent mayor and recorder or either of them WE ter preservation government disposition placing letting for ourselves our heirs and successors by these presents of lands tenements possessions rents reversions reve- give power to administer WE also assign nominate nues and hereditaments to the aforesaid mayor and constitute and make our well beloved John Brookhouse burgesses and their successors by these presents or Robert Wandell Roger Newton Thomas Goodwin George otherwise given granted assigned or confirmed or to be Blackwell John Lord John Dundridge Joseph Werden and hereafter given granted or assigned and for all accounts Solomon Roberts to be and become the first and present matters and other causes touching or in anywise con- aldermen of the borough aforesaid to continue in the cerning the borough aforesaid the state right or interest same offices during their lives unless in the interim for of the same And that the mayor of the borough afore- ill government or ill behaviour in that behalf or for said for the time being and such like burgesses of the not inhabiting or residing within the borough aforesaid borough aforesaid for the time being who may or here- from that office they or any of them shall be removed after shall be and be called the common council of the We also will and by these presents DO assign and noborough aforesaid or the major part of them for the minate the aforesaid Edward Walker from the feast of time being (of which said major part the mayor of the St. Michael the archangel which will be in the year of borough aforesaid for the time being we will shall be our Lord 1682 to be and become one of the aldermen one) so often as they shall make ordain and establish of the borough aforesaid to continue in the same office such like laws statutes and ordinances as aforesaid in during his life unless for not residing and inhabiting form aforesaid they may have power to impose and set within the borough aforesaid or such other legal cause such reasonable pains penalties punishments by impris- as aforesaid he shall be removed from that office WE onment of the body or by fines and amerciaments or any have also assigned constituted nominated and made of them to and upon all delinquents against such laws and by these presents for us our heirs and successors statutes and ordinances or any of them as to the mayor DO assign nominate constitute and make our well befor the time being and such burgesses of the borough loved Leonard Sadd John Francis Henry Werden John aforesaid for the time being who are or hereafter shall Willott John Stone Benjamin Parker Godfrey Meynell be and be called the common council of the borough Thomas Bruin William Wandell John Cheshire Francis aforesaid or the major part of them (of which said Radford John Bourne John Harryman and William major part we will that the mayor of the borough afore- Hodgkinson to be and become the first and present said for the time being shall be one) shall seem reason- brethren of the borough aforesaid to continue in the able and requisite And the same fines and amercia- same offices during their lives unless in the mean while ments by distress or other lawful method whatsoever for ill government or ill behaviour in that behalt or for for the proper use and behoof of the mayor and bur- not residing and inhabiting within the borough aforegesses of the borough aforesaid and their successors said they or any of them shall be removed from that without account or any other thing to us our heirs or office WE have also assigned nominated constituted and successors therefore to be given may have power to made and by these presents for ourselves our heirs and levy and have without the hinderance of us our heirs successors DO assign nominate constitute and make and successors all and singular which laws statutes and our well beloved Henry Cordin George Linacre Samuel ordinances so as aforesaid to be made we will for our- Cheshire John Scattergood Samuel Fletcher Henry selves our heirs and successors shall be observed under Holmes John Allen Henry Noton William Yates Wilthe pains therein to be contained so that such laws liam Francis Isaac Cheshire Thomas Watson David statutes ordinauces and imprisonments fines and amer- Cooper and James Bacon to be and become the first and ciaments be reasonable and not repugnant nor contrary present capital burgesses of the borough aforesaid to to the laws or statutes of our kingdom of England And continue in the same offices during their lives unless in for the better execution of these our grants in this be- the interim for bad government or ill behaviour in half we have assigned constituted nominated and made that behalf or for not inhabiting and dwelting within and by these presents for us our heirs and successors the borough aforesaid they or any of them shall be reCO nominate assign constitute and make our beloved moved from that office which said aldermen brethren Edward Walker Esq. to be and become the first mayor and capital burgesses before named shall take their of the borough aforesaid willing that the same Edward corporal oaths before the mayor and recorder of the Walker in the office of mayor of the same borough borough aforesaid or one of them well and truly to exshall be and continue from the making of these pre-ecute their offices TO which said mayor and recorder sents until the feast of St. Michael the archangel next ensuing and from thence until another burgess of the borough aforesaid to the office of mayor of the borough aforesaid shall be preferred and sworn according to the ordinances hereafter in these presents expressed and declared if the same Edward Walker shall so long live an oath upon God's holy evangelists to be first taken before the recorder or common clerk of the borough aforesaid for the time being the said office of mayor well and truly to exceute TO which said recorder and common clerk wedo by these presents give power to

and one of them we give power and authority by these presents to administer the oath aforesaid AND FURTHER we will and by these presents for us our heirs and successors do grant to the aforesaid mayor and burgesses of the borough of Derby aforesaid and their successors that the aldermen and brethren of the borough aforesaid for the time being or the major part of them from time to time for ever may and shall have power and authority yearly and every year on the day of the feast of St. Michael the archangel after the feast of St. Michael next ensuing themselves or a major

part of them to assemble in the Guild-hall in the borough aforesaid commonly called the Moot-hall or in any other convenient place within the borough aforesaid according to their discretions to be appointed and assigned and there continue until they or the major part of them there then assembled shall then have elected and nominated one of the aldermen of the borough aforesaid to be mayor of the borough aforesaid for one whole year then next ensuing and that then and there they may be able and capable before they thence depart to choose and nominate one of the aldermen of the borough aforesaid for the time being who shall be mayor of the borough aforesaid for one whole year then next ensuing And that he after he shall be elected and chose as aforesaid unto the mayoralty of the borough aforesaid before he be admitted to execute that office shall take a corporal oath upon God's holy Evangelists annually upon the day of election if he shall be then present or if absent then within one month then next ensuing after the said day of election before the last precedent mayor or in his absence before the recorder and common clerk of the borough aforesaid or one of them who shall be then present in the Guild-hall of the borough aforesaid or in any other convenient place within the borough aforesaid according to their discretions to be appointed and assigned truly well and faithfully to execute that office in and by all things concerning that office TO which said precedent mayor recorder and common clerk of the borough aforesaid for the time being or any one or more of them such oath to give and administer for us our heirs and successors we give power and authority by these presents and that after such oath so taken he may be able and capable of executing the office of mayor of the borough aforesaid until the feast day of St. Michael the archangel then next ensuing and from thenceforth until one other of the said aldermen of the borough aforesaid in due manner and form shall be elected preferred and chosen to be mayor of the borough aforesaid according to the orders and constitutions of the borough aforesaid above in these presents mentioned AND FURTHER we will and by these presents for us our heirs and successors DO grant to the aforesaid mayor and burgesses of the borough of Derby aforesaid and their successors That if it shall happen that the mayor of the same borough at any time hereafter within one year after he shall be preferred and sworn as aforesaid to the office of mayor of the said borough shall die or be removed from that office That then and so often it may and shall be lawful for the aldermen of the borough aforesaid for the time being themselves or the majority of them within fourteen days then next ensuing the death or removal of the said mayor to assemble in the aforesaid Guildhall in the borough aforesaid or in any other convenient place within the borough aforesaid and to elect nominate and choose one honest and fit man as the alderman of the borough aforesaid to be mayor of the said borough in the room of him so dying or removed from his said office And that he into the office of mayor being so clected and chosen a corporal oath in form aforesaid being first taken may have and exercise the said office for the remainder of that year and until another shall be in due mauner elected and sworn into that office and so often as the like case shall happen And if after the death or resignation of any of the aforesaid aldermen any one or inore of the aldermen of the said borough shall die or for the causes aforesaid be removed That then the mayor of the borough aforesaid and the rest of the aldermen then living within one month then next ensuing or the major part of them in the presence of the same mayor from time to time for ever to be assembled in the Guild-hall aforesaid or some other convenient place within the borough aforesaid according to their discretions by the mayor to be limited and appointed or the major part of them so assembled may have power and authority to elect and prefer one or more of the better and more discreet brethren of the borough aforesaid into the place or places of such alderman or aldermen of the borough aforesaid then dead or removed from his or their office to supply the aforesaid number of aldermen of the same borough and that he or they so chosen and preferred having taken a corporal oath the same office well truly and faithfully to execute before the mayor

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of the borough aforesaid for the time being the same office or offices to which he or they shall be so elected preferred and sworn may have and exercise during their lives unless for ill government or ill behaviour in the same or for not residing within the borough as aforesaid he or they shall be removed and so toties quoties as the case shall happen And if any one or some of the brethren of the borough aforesaid shall die or be removed from his or their office That then the mayor of the borough aforesaid and the rest of the brethren of the borough aforesaid then being within one month then next following or the majority of them in the presence of the same mayor to be assembled from time to time for ever in the Guild-hall aforesaid or in some other convenient place within the borough aforesaid according to their discretions to be limited and appointed by the mayor or a major part of them so assembled may have power and authority to elect and prefer one or more of the better and more honest capital burgesses of the borough aforesaid into the place or places of such brother or brethren of the borough aforesaid then dead or removed from his or their place or places to make up the aforesaid number of fourteen brethren of the same borough and that he or they being so elected and chosen having taken a corporal oath well truly and faithfully to execute that office before the mayor of the borough aforesaid for the time being the same office or offices whereto he or they shall be so chosen preferred and sworn may have and exercise for their lives unless for ill government or nonresidence within the borough aforesaid or other lawful causes as aforesaid they or any of them shall be removed from the aforesaid place of brethren and so often as it shall happen And if any one or more of the capital burgesses of the borough aforesaid shall be removed from that office That then the mayor of the borough aforesaid the aldermen brethren and the rest of the capital burgesses then being within one month then next ensuing or the major part of them in the presence of the same mayor to be assembled from time to time for ever in the Guild-hall aforesaid or in some other convenient place within the said borough according to their discretions to be limited and appointed by the mayor or the major part of them so assembled may have power and authority to elect and prefer one or more of the better and more discreet burgesses of the borough aforesaid inhabiting into the place or places of such capital burgess or capital burgesses of the borough aforesaid then dead or removed from that office to supply the aforesaid number of fourteen capital burgesses of the same borough and that he or they so chosen and preferred having taken a corporal oath well truly and faithfully to execute that office before the mayor of the borough aforesaid for the time being the sanie office or offices whereto he or they shall be so chosen or preferred and sworn may have and exercise for their lives unless for ill government or for nonresidence within the borough aforesaid or other legal causes as aforesaid he or they shall be removed and so often as the case shall thus happen to which said mayor for the time being we do by these presents for us our heirs and successors give power and authority to administer such oath to the aldermen brethren and capttal burgesses in like manner from time to time hereafter to be chosen AND FURTHER we will and by these presents for us our heirs and successors Do grant to the aforesaid mayor and burgesses of the borough of Derby and to their successors that the mayor of the borough aforesaid for the time being and the aldermen brethren and capital burgesses of the borough aforesaid for the time being or the major part of them (of which said major part we will that the mayor of the borough aforesaid for the time being shall be one) shall and may from time to time have power and authority to displace or remove such burgesses of the borough aforesaid from their office or place of common council who are or in any future times hereafter shall be of the common council of the borough aforesaid for the causes aforementioned or for any other reasonable or lawful causes or to displace or remove any burgess or burgesses of the borough aforesaid from the privileges of a burgess any act statute ordinance use prescription or custom to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding AND FURTHER we will and by these presents for us our heirs and successors DO

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