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junior, John Minshall, Joseph Dyason, John Crichley, Caldecott Aldersey, Edward Partington, Randal Oulton, John Burroughs, Puleston Partington, Samuel Heath, Richard Oulton, Thomas Maddockes, Thomas Waringham, Henry Crosby, William Francis, Theodorus Aldcroft, Richard Brett, Thomas Holland, Matthew Anderton, Thomas Johnson, John Warrington, Nathaniel Bullen, Charles Pindar, Hugh Bartley, Griffith Trygan, John Halo, Robert Moulson, Ralph Poole, and Edward Croughton, respectively, and thereby they and each of them severally and respectively became and were amoved from their respective offices and places of Aldermen and Common-Councilmen before-mentioned: wherefore, the said power in the said last-mentioned letters patent, as to the election of Aldermen of the said city of Chester, ceased and determined, to wit, at the city of Chester aforesaid, in the county of the same city; all which matters and things the said Coroner and Attorney of our said Lord the now King, for the said Lord the now King, is ready to verify, and prays, that the said Thomas Amery may be convicted of the premises above charged upon him by the said information, by the said Coroner and Attorney of our said Lord the now King, exhibited against him; and that the said Thomas Amery may be forejudged, and excluded from the aforesaid office of an Alderman of the said city of Chester, and from the liberties, privileges, and franchises belonging and appertaining to the said office. And the said Coroner and Attorney of our said Lord the now King, for our said Lord the now King, for further replication in this behalf, saith, that the sovereign Lord Henry the Seventh, late King of England, by his letters patent, under the seal of his county palatine of Chester, bearing dated at Chester, upon the 6th day of April, in the twenty-first year of his reign, out of the great affection which he bore and had to his city of Chester, and the citizens and commonalty of the same city, and in consideration of the good behaviour and the great costs and expences of the citizens of the same city, and also of the grateful services to the said late King by them against the adversaries and rebels of the said late King, many times bestowed, willing the bettering of the same city, and also especially to provide for the advantage and quiet of the same citizens, their heirs and successors, out of his special grace, and on his certain knowledge and mere motion, gave and granted, and by the said letters patent confirmed for himself and his heirs, to the aforesaid citizens and commonalty, and their heirs and successors for ever, that the said city, and all the ground within the ditch of the same city, with its suburbs and hamlets in the precincts and circuit of the same, [349] and the whole ground in the precincts and circuit of the same city of Chester, and its aforesaid suburbs and hamlets, (his castle of Chester, situated within the walls of the same city, altogether excepted,) should be from the county of Chester from that time exempted, separated, and in all things, and by all things, wholly exempted and separated, as well by land as by water; and that the said city and suburbs, and hamlets of the same, and all the land within the precincts and circuit of the same, (except before excepted,) should be for the future a county by itself, and in itself distinct and separate from his county of Chester, and for the future should be named and called the county of the city of Chester for ever: and the said late King Henry the Seventh, by his said letters patent also willed, and gave, and granted, for himself and his heirs, to the said citizens and commonalty. their heirs and successors, that they and their successors for ever in every year successively, might elect, make, and choose twenty four fellow citizens of the same city to be Aldermen, and also forty other citizens of the same city for the Common Council of the same city, which said twenty-four fellow citizens so to be elected and chosen, should have and bear the name of Aldermen of the city of Chester for ever, of which said twenty-four Aldermen, also one, by the unanimous consent and assent of the Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and also of the other citizens of the common-council aforesaid, to the office of Recorder of the city aforesaid, should be elected and appointed; and the said late King Henry the Seventh also willed and granted, for himself and his heirs, that the said citizens and commonalty, and their heirs and successors, should and might have, appoint, and elect out of themselves in every year successively for ever, a Mayor, and that every Mayor of the same city for the time being, should himself, so soon as he should be elected and appointed Mayor of the said city, be his Escheator and Clerk of the Market there and that the said Mayor and commonalty, and their heirs and successors for ever, should be one community by themselves, and should be for ever