the then late Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark, or any Abbot of the then late Monastery of St. Saviours of Bermondsey, near Southwark; or any Prior or Convent of the then late Priory of St. Mary Overy; or any of them ever had, then had, or ought to have had in the Premises, in any of the Places aforesaid; or which the said King Edward the Sixth then lately held and enjoyed, or ought to have had and enjoy; and in as ample manner as King Henry the Eighth had and enjoyed, or ought to have had, and enjoy the same: So that none of the King's Sheriffs, or any other of his Officers, should intermeddle in any thing in the said Borough and Precincts aforesaid.

And the said King Edward the Sixth did, by his said Letters Patents further grant, that all the Inhabitants of the said Precincts should be within the Ordinance, Governance, and Correction of the Maior and Officers of London, and their Deputies, as the Citizens and Inhabitants of London ought to be, by reason of any Charter formerly granted by any of the King's Progenitors, to the Maior, Commonalty and Citizens of London. And that the said Maior, Commonalty and Citizens, and their Successors, for ever, should have, enjoy and use such Laws, Jurisdictions, Liberties, Franchises, and Privileges whatsoever, in the Borough and Precincts aforesaid, as fully and freely as they then used, or ought to have used and enjoyed the same in London, by vertue of any Grant to them made by any of the said King's Progenitors.

And that the Maior of London for the time being, and the Recorder of London for the time being, after they have born the Office of Mayoralty of London, should be Justices of the King's Peace in Southwark, and the Precincts aforesaid, so long as they should stand Aldermen of the said City, and should in the said Borough and Precincts aforesaid, do and execute all Things which other Justices of the Peace might do in the County of Surry, according to the Laws and Statutes of England.

And also, that the said Maior, Commonalty and Citizens, and their Successors, should have every Week, on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, in the said Borough and Town of Southwark, one Market, or Markets, there to be kept, and all Things to Markets appertaining.

All which Manour, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Liberties Privileges, Franchises, and other the Premises granted by the said Letters Patents, did extend to the clear yearly Value of 35l. 14s. 4d. And were granted to be holden to the said Maior, Commonalty and Citizens of London, and their Successors for ever, of the said King, his Heirs and Successors, as of his Mannor of East Greenwich, in the County of Kent, by Fealty only in Free Socage (and not in Capite) for all manner of Services and Demands whatsoever.

But there was excepted and reserved out of the said Grant, to the said King Edward the Sixth, his Heirs and Successors, all his Rights, Jurisdictions, Liberties and Franchises whatsoever, within the Walk, Circuit, and Precinct of his Capital Messuage, Gardens, and Park in Southwark, and in all Gardens, Curtilages, and Lands, to the said Mansion House, Gardens, and Park belonging.

Also, there was excepted and reserved out of the said Grant, the House, Messuage, or Lodging there, called the King's Bench, and the Gardens to the same belonging: so long as it should be used as a Prison for Prisoners, as it was then used.

Also there was excepted and reserved out of the said Grant, the House, Messuage, or Lodging there, called the Marshalsea, and the Gardens to the same belonging; so long as it should be used as a Prison for Prisoners, as it was then used.

Also it was provided, that the said Letters Patents should not be prejudicial to the Offices of the Great Master or Steward of the King's Houshold, within the Borough and Precincts aforesaid, to be executed, while the same Borough and Precincts should be within the Verge. Nor to Joh. Gates, Knight, one of the Gentlemen of the King's Privy-Chamber, concerning any Lands, Tenements, Offices, Profits, Franchises, or Liberties to him granted, during his Life, by the said King Edward the Sixth, or by his Father King Henry the Eighth.

About the space of a Month after the said Borough of Southwark was so granted by King Edward the Sixth, to the Maior, Commonalty, and Citizens of London: and that they by force of the said Letters Patents, stood charged with the Ordering, Survey, and Government of the same Borough, and of all the King's Subjects inhabiting therein, and repairing thither; At a Court holden before Sir Rowland Hill, Knight, then Lord Maior of London, and the Aldermen of the same City, in the Guild Hall of London, on Tuesday the eight and twentieth Day of May, in the said fourth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, the said Town or Borough was named and called, The Ward of Bridge Ward without: And Sir John Ayliffe, Knight, Citizen and Barber-Surgeon of London, was then also named, elected, and chosen by the same Court, to be Alderman of the same Ward, albeit that before that time there neither was any such Ward nor Alderman.

And it was then also ordered, That the said Sir John Ayliffe, by that Name of Alderman of Bridge Ward without, and all other that from thenceforth should be Alderman of the same Ward, should have the Rule, Survey, and Government, not only of the Inhabitants of the said Town and Borough of Southwark, and other the King's People repairing to the same, but also of all the Liberties, Franchises, and Privileges within the said Town and Borough, then formerly granted by the King and his Progenitors to the said Maior, Commonalty and Citizens of London. And for the due execution of which Office, the said Sir John Ayliffe was then presently sworn and admitted.

Not long after, viz. at a Court of Common-Council, holden in the Guild Hall of London, on the last Day of July, in the said fourth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, and in the time of the Maioralty of the said Sir Rowland Hill, it was enacted, That besides the then ancient accustomed number of five and twenty Aldermen, there should be one Alderman more elected, to have the Rule, Charge, and Governance of the said Borough and Town. And that four discreet Persons, or more, being Freemen of London, and dwelling within the said City, or the Borough of Southwark, or in other the Liberties of the said City, should from thenceforth, as often as the Case should require, be from time to time nominated, appointed, and chosen by the Inhabitants of the said Borough for the time being, before the Lord Maior of London for the time being, sitting in the said Borough for that purpose, in such sort and order, as the Aldermen of London were in those Days commonly elected.

And that the said Lord Maior for the time being should (at the next Court of Aldermen to be holden at the Guild-Hall of the said City, next after such election) present the Names and Surnames of all such Persons as so should be named before him, and put in the said election. And that the said Lord Maior and Aldermen for the time being, should of those four Persons, or more, so presented, elect and choose one, by way of Scrutiny, to be an Alderman of the said City, and to have the pecu-