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the said Friday next after the feast of Saint Dennis immediately preceding, to be Mayor of the city aforesaid, to continue in that office until another person should be nominated, elected, and made, in due form, in and to the office of Mayor of the city aforesaid; and also two of the Common-Council of the city aforesaid, who should by no means have served the office of Sheriff for three years before the said Friday next after the feast of Saint Dennis immediately preceding, to be the Sheriff's of the city aforesaid, and county of the same city, and to continue in that office until two other persons should in due form be nominated, chosen, and made, to and in that office and also out of the most discreet and honest Citizens of the city aforesaid, two persons to be Coroners of the city aforesaid, and of the county of the same city, and to continue in that office until two other persons were chosen and made, in due form, in and to that office, which same coroners, so chosen and made, should have, use, and exercise, and might have, use, and exercise, the power and authority as the said last-mentioned King's coroners of the county palatine of Chester, or in any other county in the said last-mentioned King's realm of England, had used and exercised: and further, that the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common-Council of the city aforesaid, or the greater part of them, so as aforesaid assembled, might choose two of the Aldermen of the city aforesaid, to be surveyors of the walls of the city aforesaid, called Murengers, to continue in that office till two other persons were in due form chosen and made, to and in that office, and that they, so elected, should yearly collect and receive a certain subsidy or custom in the city aforesaid, commonly called Murage, as it had been [341] anciently levied in the city aforesaid, for the support and building of the walls aforesaid; and also two others of the most discreet and honest Citizens of the city aforesaid, to be Treasurers of the city aforesaid; and also two others out of the most discreet and honest Citizens of the city aforesaid, to be officers called Leave-lookers of the city aforesaid, to continue in that office till two other persons were in due form elected and made to and in that office; and further, the said last-mentioned King willed, and by the said last-mentioned letters patent, for himself, his heirs and successors, did grant, constitute, and ordain, that if it should so happen, that the Mayor of the city aforesaid, during his mayoralty, died, or should be removed from that office at any time before the Friday next after the feast of Saint Dennis in any year, that then and so often, the Aldermen and the Common-Council of the city aforesaid, or the greater part of them, immediately after the death or removal of such Mayor, might, without any hindrance or contradiction, assemble and meet together in the Common-hall aforesaid; and that they, so assembled, or the greater part of them, might nominate and choose, by scrutiny, one of the Aldermen of the city aforesaid, who should in nowise have served the office of Sheriff for three years immediately preceding the day of such election, to be Mayor of the city aforesaid, in the place and stead of such Mayor so dead or removed, to continue in that office until Friday next after the feast of Saint Dennis next ensuing his election aforesaid, and until another person to and in that office should be chosen and made in due form, and according to the ordinances, forms, and provisions therein before-mentioned; and further, that as often as it should happen that one or more of the Aldermen of the city aforesaid, should die, or be removed from the office or offices, place or places of Aldermen, that then and so often, the Mayor, and the residue of the Aldermen and Common-Council of the city aforesaid, or the greater part of them, immediately after the death or removal of such Alderman or Aldermen, might, without any hindrance or contradiction, assemble and meet together in the common-hall aforesaid; and that they, so assembled, or the greater part of them, might, by scrutiny, elect and make one or more (as the case should require) of the Common-Council of the city aforesaid, to be an Alderman or Aldermen, in the place or places of him or them so dead or removed: and further, the said last-mentioned King willed, and by the said last-mentioned letters patent, for himself, his heirs and successors, did ordain, and firmly enjoin and command, that the aforesaid Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Common-Council, Sheriffs, Coroners, Common Clerk, the officers called Murengers, Treasurers, the officers called Leave-lookers, Sword-bearer, Mace-bearer, and Crier of the Courts of the city aforesaid, by the said last-mentioned letters patent nominated and appointed; and also all and singular persons who, after the completion of the same letters patent, and by virtue of the same, should be nominated, chosen, or appointed to or in any office