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Commonalty of the borough of Helleston, should and might be, at all future times, persons fit and capable in law, to have, acquire, receive, possess, enjoy, and hold lands tenements, liberties, privileges, jurisdictions, franchises, watercourses, and hereditaments whatsoever, of whatsoever kind, nature, or species they should be, to them and their successors, in fee and perpetuity; and also to give, grant, limit, and assign those lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and lawfully to do and execute all and singular other deeds and things by the same name and the said late Queen, of her further grace, and out of her certain knowledge and mere motion, did, by the said letters patent, assign, nominate, make, constitute, and ordain her beloved subject, Peter Collyns, an honest man, and an inhabitant of the said borough of Helleston, to be the first and modern Mayor of the said borough of Helleston, by his oath faithfully to execute the office of Mayor of the same borough, until Sunday next before the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, then next following; and from the same day, until one other person should be elected, and in due manner sworn faithfully to execute that office; and him the said Peter did make, ordain, create, constitute, establish, and declare to be the Mayor of the said borough, during the term aforesaid. And the said late Queen did, by the said letters patent, for herself, her heirs, and successors, grant to the said Mayor and Commonalty, and their successors, that for the future for ever thereafter, from time to time, there should and might be four men of the more discreet and honest and quiet men of the said borough of Helleston, who should be aiding and assisting to the said Mayor of the same borough, for the time being, for causes and matters touching the same borough; and who should be, and should be called Aldermen of the same borough; and who, together with the Mayor of the same borough for the time being, should be the Common Council of the said borough, for the making and enacting, from time to time, statutes, acts, and ordinances, touching and concerning the public utility and advantage of the same borough, and the inhabitants thereof, for the time being, by them, or the major part of them, with the Mayor of the same borough for the time being, for the better government and rule of the men and causes, things and business of the said borough, for the time being for ever there-[332]-after: and the said late Queen did also, by the said letters patent, assign, nominate, make, constitute, and ordain her beloved subjects, John Pierie, otherwise Richard, John Jones, otherwise Woolcock, Thomas Pierie, and Peter Alexander, inhabitants of the said borough of Helleston, to be the first and modern four Aldermen of the same borough and to be upon their oath corporally to be taken before the said Peter Collyns, the said modern Mayor, the Common Council of the said borough, with the said Mayor; and the Mayor and Aldermen of that borough for the time being, did make, create, constitute, ordain, and declare the Common Council of the said borough for ever: and the said late Queen did, by the said letters patent, grant to the said Mayor and Commonalty of the said borough of Helleston, and their successors, that the said Mayor and Commonalty for the time being, together with the Aldermen of the same borough for the time being, or the major part of the said Aldermen, for the future might, and might be able to elect and admit such and so many of the more discreet, honest, and quiet men, and inhabitants of the same borough, to be the Burgesses and Freemen of the same borough, as to them should, from time to time, seem fit and convenient as by the same letters patent, now remaining on record in the high Court of Chancery of our Lord the present King at Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, amongst other things more fully appears. Which said letters patent, afterwards, to wit, on the 1st day of February, in the said 27th year of the reign of the said late Queen Elizabeth, the then Burgesses of the said borough of Helleston accepted, to wit, at the borough aforesaid; and by virtue of the premises, the Burgesses of the said borough have from henceforth hitherto been and still are, one body corporate and politic, in deed, fact, and name, by the name of Mayor and Commonalty of the borough of Helleston. And the said John Hoblyn, John Rowe, Thomas Arundell, John Plomer, James Bonetto, and Henry Higgs the younger. further say, that after the accepting of the said letters patent, and long before the election of them the said John Hoblyn, John Rowe, Thomas Arundell, John Plomer, James Bonetto, and Henry Higgs the younger, hereinafter mentioned, to wit, on the 2d day of February, in the said 27th year of the reign of the said late Queen Elizabeth, at the borough aforesaid, the then Mayor and Aldermen of the