 | William Robertson - 1782 - 532 pages
...charters of community, by which he enfranchifed the inhabitants, abolifhed all marks of fervitude, and formed them into corporations or bodies politic, to be governed by a council and magiftrates of their own nomination. Thefe magiftrates had the right of adminifteringjuftice within... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...called charters of ccmmnmly, by which he enfrauchifed the inhabitants, aboliihed all marku of fervitude, and formed them into corporations or bodies politic, to be governed by a council and maxgiftrates of their own nomination. Thefe magiftrate.s had the right of adminiltering juilice within... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 726 pages
...enfranchised, all marks of servitude abolished, and these cities, &c. were formed into corporations and bodies politic, to be governed by a council and magistrates of their own nomination. The first person who conferred these privileges was Lewis the Gross in France, about the beginning... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...charters of community^ by which he eniranchifed the inhabitants, aboliihed all marks of fervitude, and formed them into corporations or bodies politic, to be governed by a council and magilt rates of their own nomination. Thefe magi ft rat es had the right of adminiilering juftice within... | |
 | Ignatius Thomson - Chronology - 1810 - 220 pages
...towns. Thefe privileges abolifhed all marks of fervitude ; and the inhabitants of towns were formed into corporations, or bodies politic, to be governed by a council and magiftrates of their own nomination. 227. The acquisition of liberty made fuch a happy change in the... | |
 | William Robertson - 1812 - 526 pages
...charters of community, by which he enfranchifed the inhabitants, aboliflied all marks of fervitude, and formed them into corporations or bodies politic, to be governed by a council and magiftrates of their own nomination. Thefe magiftrates had the right of 'adminiftering juftice within... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1817 - 534 pages
...of Europe towns situated within its own domaine. These privileges were called charters of community, by which he enfranchised the inhabitants, abolished...had the right of administering justice within their owi precincts, of levying taxes, of embodying and training to arms the militia of the town, which took... | |
 | William Robertson - Germany - 1817 - 366 pages
...privileges on the towns situated within his own domaine. These privileges were called charters of community, by which he enfranchised the inhabitants, abolished...corporations or bodies politic, to be governed by a counril and magistrates of their own nomination. These magistrates had the right of administering justice... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...privileges on the towns situated within his own domain. These privileges were called charters of community, by which he enfranchised the inhabitants, abolished...corporations or bodies politic, to be governed by л coancil and magistrates of thcirown nomination. The practice spread quickly опт Kiirnpe, and... | |
 | William Robertson - 1819 - 522 pages
...towns situated within his own domain. These privi- — 1137> leges were called charters of community, by which he enfranchised the inhabitants, abolished...of servitude, and formed them into corporations or bodies-politic, to be governed by a council and magistrates of their own nomination. These magistrates... | |
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These privileges were called charters of community, by which he enfranchised the inhabitants, abolished all marks of servitude, and formed them into corporations or bodies politic, to be governed by a council and magistrates of their own nomination. 
