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or place, offices or places, of the officers [342] aforesaid, or to or in any other office within the city aforesaid, or should be the deputy of any of the officers in the same letters patent before-mentioned; and also all and every persons who should be nominated and appointed by the said last-mentioned letters patent, justices to keep the peace within the said city, and all and every other persons who, by virtue of the same letters patent, should afterwards be justices to keep the peace in the said city, before they were admitted to the execution or exercise of the office or offices, place or places, to which they were or should be so respectively nominated, appointed, or constituted, or any otherwise in that respect should intermeddle, or any of them respectively should intermeddle, should respectively take, as well the corporal oath commonly called the oath of allegiance, as the corporal oath called the oath of supremacy, and also their oaths for the due execution of their offices, before such persons as afterwards were appointed by the same letters patent to give and administer the same, or any two or more of them; and for the better execution of the said last-mentioned King's will, as to the giving and administering the several oaths aforesaid, the same King did give and grant for himself, his heirs and successors, by the same letters patent, full power and authority to the Honourable Thomas Needham, Esq. and to his the same King's dearly beloved and faithful Richard Myddleton, Bart. John Werden, Bart. Philip Egerton, Kat. Jeoffrey Shakerley, Knt. Thomas Wainwright, Doctor of Laws, Kenrick Eyton, Esq. John Grosvenor, Esq. William Venables, Esq. Peter Dutton, Esq. John Massey, Esq. Ralph Graham, Esq. or to any two or more of them, to give, perform, and administer the several oaths before appointed and directed to be given, to all and singular the persons before-mentioned in the same letters patent, and appointed in the same letters patent to be Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Common-Council, Sheriffs, Coroners, Common-Clerk, officers called Murengers, Treasurers, officers called Leave-lookers, Sword-bearer, Mace-bearer, and Crier of the Courts of the city aforesaid; and also, by the said last-mentioned letters patent, for himself, his heirs and successors, the said last-mentioned King did give and grant full power and authority to the respective persons in the same letters patent before-mentioned, and appointed to be Mayor, Recorder of the city aforesaid for the time being, and to the respective persons by the same letters patent before-mentioned to be Justices to keep the peace in the said city, and also all other persons who afterwards should be Mayor, deputy Mayor, Recorder, deputy Recorder of the city aforesaid, or Justices assigned to keep the peace in the said city, or to any two or more of them, from time to time, to give, perform, and administer the several oaths before-mentioned, to such persons respectively who afterwards should be named, chosen, or appointed to any office or offices, place or places of officer or officers in the same letters patent mentioned or constituted, or to any other office within the city aforesaid, or county of the same city; and also to all other per-[343]-sons who afterwards should be Justices to keep the peace in the said city, or should be admitted freemen of the city aforesaid; and also to give, perform, and administer the oath aforesaid, called the oath of supremacy, to any persons within the city aforesaid, or county of the same city, who, by the laws or statutes of the said last-mentioned King's kingdom of England, ought to take that oath as by the said last-mentioned letters patent (amongst other things) more fully appears. Which said last-mentioned letters patent were duly accepted and agreed to by the said citizens and inhabitants. And the said Thomas Amery further saith, that the said Earl of Derby, Thomas Grosvenor, Peter Pindar, Bart. Richard Dutton, Knt. Edward Lutwych, Knt. Peter Shakerley, Hugh Grosvenor, Robert Werden, Robert Murray, Thomas Wilcock, Thomas Simpson, William Ince, William Wilme, John Sparke, William Wilson, Edward Oulton, Hugh Starkie, Ralph Burroughs, Francis Skellerne, William Starkie, William Allen, Henry Bennett, William Bennett, and Valentine Short, in the said last-mentioned letters patent mentioned, after the granting and acceptance of the said last-mentioned letters patent, (to wit,) on the 5th day of February, in the said thirty-seventh year of the reign of the said late King Charles the Second, became and were Aldermen of the said city respectively, according to the form and effect of the said last-mentioned letters patent, (that is to say,) at the city of Chester aforesaid; and from that time hitherto there ought to have been, and still are, twenty-four Aldermen of the said city; as is in and by the said information