Twenty-four burgesses.. Empowered to make bye-laws. To inflict penalties Fines to go to the corporation. Page 137 ib. 138 ib. ib. ib. ib. 139 ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. 140 ib. ib. Bye-laws not to be repugnant to the general laws of Ireland 141 First mayor named, and how long to continue. If within ten years the corporation do not elect a mayor Irish Society to elect a mayor in default of nomination and certificate by the corporation .146 Page Election of mayor after the expiration of ten years. 147 Oaths to be taken by the mayor ib. Death or removal of mayor 148 .. Another to be elected.. ib. In default of such election and certificate the Irish Society to Death or removal of aldermen after ten years.. Common council to elect aldermen, and how long to continue 151 Oath ..... 150 ib. ib. Fine for not serving How to be levied ib. ib. Fines to go to the corporation ib. Power to commit to prison for non-payment of fines. And how to be supplied in case of death or removal Within ten years the election of recorder to be certified to the ib. To take oaths ib. After ten years the corporation to elect future recorder, who must be an.. Englishman.. If the corporation do not within ten years elect recorder and certify the election to the Irish Society, the Society may elect one ib. 155 Within ten years, the mayor, aldermen, and common council refusing to administer oaths, to be fined by the Irish Society 156 Sword-bearer, and by whom to be chosen... Mayor and burgesses to observe the ordinances of their charter 158 To have a court of record... ib. ib. ib. ..... ib. ib. To plead and be impleaded in their court of record. To have cognizance of all suits, &c... Fines for contempts, &c. Juries .... Clerk and prothonotary to be appointed Page 159 ib. ib. ib. 160 .... And a town-clerk; who shall be clerk of the peace for the town of Coleraine ..... ib. And clerk and prothonotary.. 161 The first town-clerk named. ib. Death or removal of town-clerk, another to be appointed To continue for life, unless removed ib. ib. After appointment to exercise his office, and receive the fees Non-freemen not to sell wares, on pain of forfeiture. Mayor to be justice of goal delivery. Infangthef, outfangthef, and felons' goods granted to the None of the king's officers to intermeddle in the affairs of The mayor to be sole escheator. No process to be executed in the town but by the mayor. No purveyor to take goods from the inhabitants against their will... No market to be within seven miles of the town. The mayor, recorder, and certain aldermen to be justices of ib. ib. ib. 165 ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. .... Felons' goods given to the corporation.... Aldermen not to be put on assizes, juries, &c. out of the town And view of frankpledge And the office of keeper of the great beam and common balance Balance and weights. Power to appoint clerks, porters, servants, &c. of the great beam and balance.... ib. 174 ib. The corporation to send two burgesses to parliament. The sheriffs to issue precepts for that purpose Inrolment of present charter to be sufficient authority... The corporation empowered to erect guilds and fraternities ib. Companies to make bye-laws ... 175 The king's covenant to explain and amend this charter.... 177 LETTER OF KING JAMES I. TO THE LORD DEPUTY. 1615. Right trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. WE received lately from you a relation of the present state of the plantation in Ulster, set down with seeming clearness and order by the pen of Sir Josias Bodley, according to the exactness of the survey thereof taken lately by himself by our commandment, that we acknowledge his care and industry in performance of this service, and do require you to give him thanks in our name for it. We have examined, viewed, and reviewed, with our own eye, every part thereof, and find greatly to our discontentment the slow progression of that plantation; some few only of our British undertakers, servitors, and natives having as yet proceeded effectually by the accomplishment of such things in all points as are required of them by the articles of the plantation, the rest, and by much the greatest part, having either done nothing at all, or so little, or, by reason of the slightness thereof, to so little purpose, that the work seems rather to us to be forgotten by them, and to perish under their hand, than any whit to be advanced by them; some having begun to build, and not planted, others begun to plant, and not built, and all of them, in general, retaining the Irish still upon their lands, the avoiding of which was the fundamental reason of that plantation. We have made a collection of their names, as we found their endeavours and negligencies noted in the service, which we will retain as a memorial with us, and they shall be sure to feel the effects of our favour and disfavour, as there shall be occasion. It is well known to you that if we had intended only (as it seems most of them over-greedily have done) our present profit, we might have converted those large territories to our escheated lands, to the great improvement of the revenue of our crown there; but we chose rather, for the safety of that country and the civilizing of that people, to depart with the inheritance of them at extreme undervalues, and to make a plantation of them; and since we were merely induced thereunto out of reason of state, we think we may without any breach of justice make bold with their rights who have neglected their duties, in a service of so much importance unto us, and by the same law and reason of state resume into our hands their lands |