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And for the better execution of our will and grant in this benamed, and half, we have assigned, nominated, and made, and by these prehow long to sents for us our heirs and successors, do assign, nominate, constitute and make, our beloved Tristram Beresford, gentleman, to become and be the first and present mayor of the town of Coleraine aforesaid, it being our will that the same Tristram Beresford be and shall continue in the office of mayor of the said town, from the making of these presents until the second day of January next after the date thereof, and thenceforth until one other of the inhabitants of the town aforesaid, or the liberty of the same town, shall be appointed and sworn to the office of mayor of that town, according to the ordinance and constitution in these presents below expressed and declared.

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Also we have assigned, constituted, nominated and made, and by these presents for us our heirs and successors, do assign, nominate, constitute and make, our beloved Randolph Macdonnell, knight, Francis Cooke, knight, John Tanner, clerk, Edward Doddington, Tristram Beresford, Samuel Calvert, Joshua Crew, Thomas Walton, Thomas Hillman, Thomas Rervon, Robert Newton, and Elias Gerinam, gentlemen, to become and be the first and present aldermen of the same town of Coleraine, to continue in the same office during their natural lives, unless in the mean time, for any reasonable cause, they or any of them shall be removed from their offices or places, whom for such reasonable cause we will to be removeable.

Also we have assigned, constituted and made, and by these presents for us our heirs and successors do assign, nominate, constitute and make, our beloved Thomas Casey, gentleman, to become and be the first and present chamberlain of the town aforesaid, to continue in the same office until and unto the aforesaid second day of January next ensuing the date of these presents, and from thenceforth until one of the inhabitants of the town aforesaid shall be elected and admitted into the said office of chamberlain of the town aforesaid, according to the ordinance and constitution hereunder in these presents expressed and declared. Also we have assigned, constituted and made, and by these presents for us our heirs and successors, do assign, nominate and make, our beloved Nathaniel Rowley, Patrick Braiser, Henry Lovell, William Atkins, Thomas Harvest, Thomas Moor, Thomas Plumsteede, John Gooth, Richard Glover, Christopher Cosbie, Richard Stone, Edward Nurse, Henry Myles, Henry Wigmore, William Brooker, William Whitwell, Richard Blockley, Edmund Midhop, Richard Middleton, Richard Jenney, Francis Southworth, William Raven, David Bramson, and Clement Mosse, to become and be the first and present burgesses of the town of Coleraine aforesaid, to continue in the same office of burgesses of the town aforesaid during their natural lives, unless in the mean time, for any reasonable cause, they or any of them shall be removed from that office, whom for such reasonable cause we will to be removeable,

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cessors, do grant, that the mayor of the town of Coleraine afore- Constitusaid for the time being, and also the aldermen, chamberlain, and tion of comburgesses of the same town of Coleraine for the time being, may be and shall be called the common council of the same town of Coleraine, and every of them so long as he shall continue in such office or place, may and shall be of the common council of the same town of Coleraine.

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And further we will, and by these presents for us our heirs and Election of successors, do grant to the aforesaid mayor, aldermen and bur- mayor; gesses of the town of Coleraine aforesaid, and their successors, that the mayor, aldermen, and the rest of the common council of the town of Coleraine aforesaid for the time being, or the major part of them, from time to time during the term of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents, may and shall have power and authority annually in every year, on the sixth day of January, if it be not the Lord's day, and if it be the Lord's day, then on the day next following, in our town of Coleraine aforesaid to elect and nominate, and that they may and shall be able to elect and nominate, such and the same person who at the time of such election shall be mayor of the same town of Coleraine, or one other of the aldermen of the same town of Coleraine aforesaid, to become and be the mayor of the same town for one whole year, in the form by these presents limited, next following; to be cerand that the name of the aforesaid person, so from time to time tified to the within the aforesaid space of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents, to be nominated and elected mayor of the said town of Coleraine aforesaid, shall be certified and presented from time to time, by the mayor and the rest of the common council of the said town of Coleraine, under seal of the mayoralty there, within two months next ensuing the aforesaid nomination and election, to the aforesaid Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster for the time being, to the intent that the same Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster, or the major part of them, (whereof the governor of the same Society or his deputy for the time being we will to be one,) from time to time shall approve, ratify and confirm the To be apelection and nomination aforesaid, within one month next after proved or the receipt of the certificate aforesaid, if the same Society of the rejected by governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster, or the major part of them, (whereof the aforesaid governor or the deputy of the said governor for the time being we will to be one,) shall seem fit, or the same election at the will and pleasure of them, or the major part of them as aforesaid, within one month as aforesaid, shall reject, annul and frustrate; and that every one so as aforesaid elected and nominated mayor of the town of Coleraine aforesaid, and by the aforesaid Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster, or the major part of them (whereof the governor of the same Society or his deputy for the time being we will always to be one), in writing under the common seal of the said Society, from time

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to time during the said term of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents approved and confirmed, shall on the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist then next following such election and nomination and approbation, before the last mayor or his predecessor, in the presence of such aldermen and others of the common council of the same town of Coleraine aforesaid Mayor to who shall be then present, take as well the corporal oath comtake oaths. monly called the oath of allegiance as his corporal oath, to execute the office of mayor of the town aforesaid well and faithfully, in and by all things touching that office, after such oath so taken shall and may execute the office of mayor of the town aforesaid for one whole year then next following, and from thenceforth until another of the aldermen of the same town of Coleraine aforesaid for the time being shall be duly elected, appointed and sworn into the office of mayor of the same town of Coleraine, according to the ordinance in these presents expressed and declared.

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Also we will, and by these presents for us our heirs and successors, do grant, that if and so often as it shall happen during the said term of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents, the aforesaid mayor, aldermen and the rest of the common council of the town aforesaid, at the time and place aforesaid, shall not nominate and elect one of the aldermen of the same town for the office of mayor of the same town of Coleraine in manner and form aforesaid, or such nomination and election in form aforesaid specified, from time to time during the said term of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents, shall tify to the not be certified and presented to the Society and governor of the assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster, or the major part of them, (whereof the governor of the Society aforesaid or his deputy for the time being we will to be one,) for their approbation of the same election, according to the ordinance in these presents above declared, that then and so often, and within four months then next following, it shall and may be lawful for the aforesaid Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster within the realm of Ireland aforesaid, or the major part of them, (whereof the governor or deputy of the same governor we will to be one,) during the aforesaid term of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents, to nominate and elect such and the same person who at the time of such the Society election shall be mayor of the town of Coleraine, or one other of the aldermen of the said town of Coleraine, to be and become the mayor of the same town of Coleraine, to continue in the same office until the sixth day of January then next following, and thenceforth until one other of the aldermen of the same town, according to the ordinance and proviso in these presents declared, shall be in due manner elected, appointed and sworn, and so as often as the case shall happen during the said term of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents; and that he who shall be so appointed, elected and nominated mayor of the same town of Coleraine, before he shall come to or be admitted to executę

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that office, shall take as well the oath commonly called the oath To take the of allegiance as his corporal oath, before the last mayor his pre- oaths of decessor, in all and singular matters well and faithfully to execute office and the office of mayor, and that after such oath shall be so taken, he shall hold and exercise that office until the sixth day of January then next following, and thenceforth until another in form aforesaid shall be elected, appointed and sworn in the office of mayor of the same town.

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And further we will, and by these presents, for us our heirs In case of and successors, do grant unto the aforesaid mayor, aldermen death or reand burgesses of the town of Coleraine aforesaid and their cessors, that if within the space of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents, the mayor of the town of Coleraine aforesaid, at any time within one year after he shall have been elected, appointed and sworn to the office of mayor of the town aforesaid shall happen to die or be removed from his office, which said mayor not well behaving himself in that office we will to be removeable at the pleasure of the aldermen and the rest of the common council of the same town of Coleraine for the time being, or the major part of them who shall be then present, so that the major part of the aldermen of the same town may or shall be then present; or if within the said space of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents, the person so as aforesaid nominated or elected to be mayor of the aforesaid town of Coleraine, shall happen before approbation or rejection, or before his oath made or taken, to die, that then and so often it shall and may be the alderlawful for the aforesaid aldermen and the rest of the common men and council of the same town of Coleraine for the time being, in case council to such person so nominated and elected to be mayor of the said elect town shall die before approbation or rejection, or before oath another. made and taken, to assemble all together, or the major part of them, within three days next following such death or removal, in the common hall or in any other convenient place within the town of Coleraine aforesaid, and there to elect and nominate one other honest and fit person of the aldermen of the town aforesaid for mayor, and to be mayor of the town of Coleraine aforesaid, in the place of him so dying or removed from his office; and that the name of the aforesaid person so from time To be certito time during the said term of ten years next following the date fied to the of these presents to be nominated and elected mayor of the said Irish Society. town of Coleraine, shall within thirty days next ensuing such election be certified and presented, from time to time, by the aldermen and the rest of the common council of the said town of Coleraine, to the aforesaid Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster for the time being, to the intent that the same Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster, or the major part of them (whereof the governor of the same Society for the time being or his deputy for the time being we will to be one), from time to time during the said term of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents, shall approve, ratify and confirm the election

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Confirmed and nomination aforesaid, or otherwise shall reject and annul by Irish the same election and nomination within seven days next after Society. the receipt of such certificate, if to the same Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster aforesaid, or the major part of them as aforesaid, it shall seem Oath to be necessary; and that every one so as aforesaid elected and nominated for mayor of the town of Coleraine aforesaid, and by the aforesaid Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster aforesaid, or the major part of them (whereof the governor of the same Society or the deputy of the same governor, for the time being from time to time, we will to be one), approved, shall take a corporal oath within sixty days then next ensuing such approbation, before such aldermen, or before the mayor and such aldermen, according as the case shall happen and require, and before others of the common council of the same town of Coleraine who shall be then present, rightly, truly and faithfully to execute that office in and by all things touching the same office, shall and may execute the office of mayor of the said town of Coleraine aforesaid, in the place of the same mayor so dead or removed from his office, or the person so nominated or elected and dying, during the residue of the same year, and thenceforth until another of the aldermen of the same town of Coleraine for the time being to the office of mayor of the same town of Coleraine shall be in due manner elected, appointed and sworn, after and according to the ordinance in these presents expressed and declared; and if during Society to the said term of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents the aforesaid aldermen and the rest of the common council of mayor in the same town of Coleraine, in form aforesaid, shall not happen default of nomination to nominate and elect one of the aldermen of the same town and certifi- into the office of mayor of the same town of Coleraine, in the cate by the place of the said mayor or of the person nominated and elected to be mayor so dying or removed from his office, or the name of the aforesaid person so nominated and elected in form aforesaid shall not be certified and presented, or the aforesaid Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster, or the major part of them, (whereof the governor of the Society aforesaid or his deputy for the time being we will to be one,) shall not approve of the same election according to the ordinance in these presents above declared, that then and so often it shall and may be lawful for the aforesaid Society of the governor and assistants of London of the new plantation in Ulster, or the major part of them (whereof the governor of the Society aforesaid or his deputy for the time being we will to be one), during the aforesaid term of ten years next ensuing the date of these presents, for this purpose met and assembled, within six months next after such defect of election or nomination or certificate, or after such rejection or non-approbation, or after such death of the person so nominated or elected to be mayor of the said town, to nominate and elect one of the aldermen of the town of Coleraine to become and be mayor of the

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