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of the city of Chester aforesaid, the information aforesaid, and all manner of process, judgment, and seizure thereupon had and rendered. And moreover, the said late King James the Second, of his special grace, and of his certain knowledge and mere motion, restored and granted, and by his said letters patent for him, his heirs and successors, did restore and grant to the said Mayor and Citizens of the said city of Chester, all and singular liberties, franchises, lands, tenements, rents, jurisdictions, hereditaments, goods, chattels, interest, reversions, profits, offices; rights, emoluments, cus-[356]-toms, exemptions, privileges, easements, benefits, and advantages whatsoever, which the said Citizens, or the Mayor and Citizens of the said city of Chester enjoyed, or of right ought or could enjoy, or which to them were by any means whatsoever belonging, at or before the time of the rendering of the aforesaid judgment, by the name, or in the right of the Mayor and Citizens of the city of Chester, or by the name, or in the right of the Citizens of the said city or by any other name of incorporation, by which the said Citizens were called, in as ample manner and form to all intents and purposes, as though the information aforesaid had never been exhibited, and the judgment aforesaid, or any process upon the information aforesaid, had not been given or had; and that the said Mayor and Citizens of the said city of Chester might be, and should be one body separate and politic in deed, fact, and name, by the name of the Mayor and Citizens of the city of Chester, and by all and singular such other name and names as they lawfully had, and claimed to have, at the time of the rendering of the said judgment, and in such and as ample manner and form as they were incorporated or claimed to be incorporated, at the time of the rendering of the said judgment, or before. And the said late King James the Second, by his said letters patent, also willed and commanded, that all and singular the officers, Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Citizens, being of the Common-Council of the said city, and all officers and ministers whomsoever, and each of them, who were in such offices or places at the time of the rendering of the said judgment, that they and each of them should take upon themselves and execute the same offices and places respectively, as they held and executed the same and each of them before the rendering the judgment aforesaid. And moreover the said late King James the Second, by the said letters patent, for him, his heirs and successors, did constitute and restore to William Street, Esq. (who was Mayor of the said city of Chester, at the time of rendering the said judgment in the said term of Saint Hilary, in the 35th and 36th years of the reign of the said late King Charles the Second) the office of Mayor of the said city; and did also constitute and restore to Sir William Williams, Knight and Baronet, the Solicitor-General of his said late Majesty King James the Second, (who was Recorder and Alderman of the said city at the time of rendering of the said judgment,) the office and place, and offices and places of Recorder and Alderman of the said city; and did constitute and restore to William, Earl of Derby, Thomas, Earl Rivers, Thomas Grosvenor, Bart. Peter Pindar, Bart. Roger Whitley, Esq. the said William Street, Thomas Wilcocks, Richard Wright, Thomas Sympson, Henry Lloyd, William Ince, John Anderson, George Mainwaring, Peter Edwards, Nathaniel Williamson, William Wilson, Edward Oulton, and Hugh Starkey, Gentlemen, (who were Aldermen of the same city at the same time of rendering the said judgment,) the same several and respective offices of Aldermen; and did constitute and restore to Robert [357] Murren, (who was Sheriff of the said city at the same time of rendering of the said judgment,) the office of Sheriff of the said city; to have and exercise the same several and respective offices and places in such and as ample manner and form as they had the same offices and places respectively before the rendering the said judgment. And did thereby authorise, command, and require them, and each of them, to take upon themselves, exercise and perform the said several offices and places of Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Sheriffs respectively, in such and as ample manner and form as they had and exercised the same, at or before the time of rendering the said judgment; and also that they should cause the Citizens of the said city to be assembled in the Common-hall of the said city, to make elections, and to do all other things requisite and accustomed, and to be done in the usual manner. And moreover the said late King James the Second, by his said letters patent, also willed and granted, that the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Citizens of the said city for the time being, the Common-Council, Citizens in