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<p n="167">That the said Deft on the said 21st. Day of December in the 25th. Year of<lb></lb>
the Reign of our Soverign Lord the King and long before and always after until<lb></lb>
the Day of the taking of this Inquisition was inhabiting and resiant<lb></lb>
paying Scott and bearing Lott within the said Parish of Saint Martin Outwich<lb></lb>
in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo184">Ward of Bishopsgate</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo185">London</rs>
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aforesaid and that within the same<lb></lb>
Ward there is and from Time whereof the Memory of Man is not to the<lb></lb>
contrary there hath been a certain Court of our said Lord the Predecessors and<lb></lb>
his Majesty's Predecessors called the Wardmote held and to be held in every<lb></lb>
Year upon the Feast of Saint Thomas the appostle (unless the same Feast<lb></lb>
happened to be or fell on a Sunday and in such case upon the Day next<lb></lb>
following that Feast) before the Aldermen of the said Ward for the Time being<lb></lb>
or in his absence before the Mayor of the said City for the Time being in which<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo186">Court of Wardmote</rs>
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according to the said Custom within the said used and<lb></lb>
approved during the Time last aforesaid to wit in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo187">St. Helen</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Ward aforesaid All the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott and bearing<lb></lb>
Lott within the Ward aforesaid from the Time being have been used and accustomed<lb></lb>
and ought and Were bound by reason of their Residence to appear and do their<lb></lb>
Suit there in the same Court and that within the said the Men inhabiting &<lb></lb>
resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott within the said Ward for the Time being were<lb></lb>
Yearly during the Time aforesaid used and accustomed and ought to appoint and<lb></lb>
chuse divers persons then inhabiting and resiant and paying Scott & bearing<lb></lb>
Lott within the Ward aforesaid Constables in and for the said Ward for the<lb></lb>
preserving the Peace of the Lord the King and for the apprehending of Rogues<lb></lb>
Vagabonds and other suspicious persons within the Ward aforesaid for the<lb></lb>
Public good which said persons so as aforesaid appointed and chosen were used<lb></lb>
and accustomed and ought to hold the same Office for the Year then next ensuing<lb></lb>
and until other Persons shod. be elected into the sd. Office And also were used and<lb></lb>
accustomed and ought on the Monday next after the Feast of the Epiphany<lb></lb>
next after their said Election at the Guildhall of the said City of London<lb></lb>
in the Court then and there<obscured></obscured>
before the Mayor & Aldermen of the said City<lb></lb>
for the Time being for all the Time aforesaid to take their corporal Oath<lb></lb>
for the due Execution of their said office of Constable and that the said</p>
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