Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	citizen_n	london_n	name_n	9,233	5	8.1970	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32756	Proposals for printing a book entituled, The history and antiquities of Hertfordshire. Written by Sir Henry Chauncy, Kt, Serjeant at law. Containing, ...	Chauncy, Henry, Sir, 1632-1719.	1700 (1700)	Wing C3742; ESTC R213936	7,544	4

near the City or within the compass of their Army and what they should not need they would burn or destroy the King observed the Course of the River Lea as he was drawn with a Horse upon the Banks and discerning that in some places the Chanel of the River might be drawn so shallow and the Stream straitened with Stakes that all the Skill of the Danes could not tow their Ships back again he caused two Currents to be made one on either side the River and after the Work was begun the Water sunk at the Danish Fort so that the Pagans could not tow back their Ships then they immediately convey'd their Wives to the East-Angles where they secured them and made their Composition with the English that they might march to Quatbridge near the Severne where they built another Fort but the Army hastened and followed them to the West whilst the Citizens of London did seize their Ships and those they could not bring up they broke in pieces but those which were worth the taking they drew up to the City of London and since that time the Tides have been kept back by a large Sasse made at Blackwall from whence that place was denominated and by straitning the Passage of the Tides in the several Channels with high Banks on either side those Cuts which keep back the Tides from drowning the Level so that they cannot now flow to this Town as they formerly did when they brought up large Vessels hither from whence a Hill near Warepark is now called Shipman's Hill and another Hill near this Town is now called Porthill and some Anchors have been found in this Vale But where the passage of the Thames is open and wide and no Mills to obstruct the Current the Tydes still flow a great way as to Kingston When King Alfred had in this manner dreined the whole level and recovered it from the Sea it became his Land whence several of these Meads are now called King's Meads and become common to the adjacent Villages and in Anno Christi 900 this King died and this Town came to King Edward who was his Son and Successor Which King Chro. Sax. 549. Anno Christi 914 14. Regni sui about the Feast of St. Martin being the 12th of November commanded a Burrough should be built on the North side of Herotford between the Rivers called the Mimeram the Benefitian and the Ligean which are the Parishes of St. Andrew St. Nicolas and St. Mary the Great for they are situated upon the North part of the Ligean which is the Luy or the Lea and the Mimeram or the Marran and the South part of the Beane or the Benefitian Ib. p. 550. num 913. but in the Summer following between the Ambarvals which is Rogation Week and the Solstice he caused a good part of his Army to build the other part of this Burrough on the South side of the Ligean or the Lea which are the Parishes of All Saints and St. Mary the Less since that time called St. Mary the Monk and now St. Johns and this Town was then made parcel of the King's Revenue for that it was built at his proper Costs and Charges and it was called a Burrough for that it was a Fortification made to protect and defend the People from the Violence of the Danish Infidels Verst Ant. p. 212. for the Name of Burrough did properly signifie a Place of Defence for these Places at first were fenced about with Walls of Turf and Clods of Earth for Men to be shrouded in as in Forts or Castles and from this name of Burrough the Houses in this Town were antiently called Burgages And when these Houses were first inhabited the Possessors of them were called Tenants in Burgage from their Houses for every Tenant paid to the King for his Burgage or Tenement a certain yearly Rent in lieu of his Protection and Safety which was then called Haganel Ing. 5. Ed. Ill. Spel. Glos tit verb. Haga from the word Haga which signifies a Fence or a Rampire and this King did constitute a Bayliff to let his Houses and to receive his Rents and did also incorporate this Burrough by the Name of Bayliff and Tenants which Bayliff was the King's Officer which he impowered to hold Courts for the Government of the Tenants and People within the Burrough where Laws were made Offenders punisht and all Officers requisite to support the Peace and Government of a Corporation were chosen and this Constitution perpetuated to Succession which made it a Corporation or Burrough Incorporate Skinner's Lexic tit verb. Corporation for a Corporation is a Company of Tradesmen or a City or Town endowed with Privileges Magistracy and Power of making Laws within themselves and this was the Original of all Corporations But this Corporation was known by a particular Name of Bayliff and Tenants and continued to Succession and when these Tenants gained the Name of Burgesses from the Contraction of the Word Burgages the Name of this Corporation was changed for then it seems this Burrough was incorporated by the Name of Bayliff and Burgesses and that the Names of this Corporation have been such is manifest by several Charters of this Burrough In the Survey taken in the time of William the Conqueror it is there recorded That Doomsd 132. Burgum de Hertford pro decem hidis se defendebat tempore Regis Edwardi modo non facit Ibi erant 146 Burgenses in soca Regis Edwardi De his habet modo Comes Alanus tres domos quae tunc modo reddat consuetudinem Eudo Dapifer habet duos domos quae fuerunt Algari Cochenac tunc modo reddentes consuetudinem tertiam Domum habet iste Eudo quae fuit Ulmari Eton non reddat consuetudinem Goisfridus de Bech tres domos consuetudinem reddent Humfridus de Anslevile tenet sub Eudone duos domos cum uno horto harum una accomodata fuit cuidam prefecto Regis altera cum horto fuit cuidam Burgensis modo reclamant ipsi Burgenses sibi injuste ablatos Alios 18. Burgenses habet Rex Willielmus qui fuerunt homines Comitis Heraldi Comitis Lenuini omnes consuetudines reddent Petrus de Valongies habet duas Ecclesias cum una domo quas emit de Ulwin de Hatfield reddat omnes consuetudines Ipse Ulwin dare eas vendere poterat Goisfridus de Magnavile habet occupatum quoddam qui fuit Elgari Stalci septem domos quae nullam consuetudinem reddiderunt nisi geldum Regis quando colligebatur Radolfus Baniard habet duos domos tunc modo consuetudinem reddat Harduinus de Scalers habet 14 domos quas habuit Acho tempore Regis Edwardi nullam consuetudinem dabant nisi geldum Regis de quibus advocat Harduinus Regem ad protectorem Adhuc unam domum habet Harduinus de dono Regis quae fuit cuidam Burgensis reddebat omnem consuetudinem Hoc suburbium reddit 20 lib. arsas pensatas tres molini reddebant 10 lib. ad numerum Quando Petrus Vicecomes recepisset 15 lib. ad numerum reddebat tempore Regis Edwardi 7 lib. 10 sol ad numerum The Burrough of Hertford was rated at ten Hides in the time of King Edward The Confessor now that is in the time of K. William it made not so much there were one hundred forty six Burgesses in the Soke or Jurisdiction of King Edward of these Earl Alan has now that is in the time of the Conqueror three Houses which then that is in the time of King Edward and now that is in the time of King William paid Rent Eudo Dapifer had two Houses which were Algar Cochenac's and then that is in the time of King Edward and now that is in the time of King William paid Rent And the same Eudo hath a third House which was Ulmar Eton's paid no Rent