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CHARTER OF PHILIP AND MARY. 195 Kensye has its course, to the Park of Gylmartyn, called the Fayre Parke, and so from thence, with the whole circuit of the ground of Gylmartyn, which extends itself unto the water of Tamer, and from thence, as the water has its course, unto the said Bridge called Polston Bruge, which said Bridge is situate and lies upon land parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall, as the course of the water there extends itself, and the East part of the same Bridge is situate and lies upon land which was lately of the Earl of West- morland : And it shall be lawful to the Mayor and Commonalty of the same borough to make perambulations thereof, as often as it shall please them. The Mayor and Commonalty are then authorized to sue, prose- cute, and defend, in all courts and 'places, as well in actions, suits, and demands, real and personal or mixed, as in all other matters; and no freeman of the borough, nor any one inhabiting within the Liberty of the borough, shall implead or pursue without the borough any other freeman of the same borough, or any one dwelling within its Liberty, for any matter which may be deter- mined within the borough. The Mayor and Commonalty shall have a Common Seal for all their causes and business, and it shall be lawful for them, from time to time, to break that Seal, whensoever it shall please them, and to make a new one. And also we will and grant that henceforward there shall be 8 men of the more discreet, honest, and quiet men of the borough, who shall be assisting the Mayor for the time being in the matters touching the borough, and who shall be called the Aldermen of the same borough, and shall, with the Mayor, be the Common Council of the borough, for making statutes, acts, and ordinances touching the public utility of the borough, and the inhabitants thereof. Power to the Mayor and Aldermen to make reasonable laws and ordinances for the good government and rule of the artificers and other inhabitants of the borough, and for the well victualling of the same borough, so that such laws and ordinances were not repugnant to the laws and statutes of the realm. And we do nominate, constitute, and ordain our beloved sub- jects, John Wise, William Myll, John Oke, Thomas Arnoll, Robert George, Thomas Comer, John Peter, and Sampson Pyper, inhabitants of the said borough, to be the first modern eight o 2