And we do further, for us, our heirs, and successors, give and grant unto the s'd mayor, aldermen, and common council of ye s'd borough for the time being, and to their success'rs forever, full power and authority to nominate and appoint, from time to lime, one serjeant of the mace, and all other inferior officers and ministers which they shall think to be convenient and necessary, and which are accustomary in any of our corporations in our realm of England, for ye service of the s'd borough and town ; all which officers being from time to time appoin'd by the s'd mayor and aldermen as afores'd, we do, for us, our heirs, and successors, by these presents, constitute and establish in their several offices, and do give them and every of them full power and authority to use and exercise ye same within the s'd borough and town, and within the limits and franchises thereof during ye will and pleasure

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of th« sd mayor and aldermen as fully and freely as any other ihe like officers in or of any of the like corporations in our realm of England lawfully may or ought to do, and the sM office of mayor shall from thenceforth forever be annual, and that the sd mayor, alder'n, and common council shall from henceforth forever have frank and free election of the sd mayor, to be chosen yearly out of the number of the sd aldermen, and that by the votes of the greatest number of the said freeholders and inhabitants of the said corporation* and all other the said officers and ministers out of the rest of the number of the sd ffreeholders and inhabitants by ye greater number of the sd mayor, aldermen, and common council, and when and so often as any of the affiares'd aldermen and common council who are hereby nominated and created for their limetime, or untill they or any of them shall be lawfully removed^ or vollenta-^ rily remove themselves from the sd corporation, ye said aldermen to be elected and chosen out of the number of the sd common council, and the number of the common council to be chosen and made up out of the freemen of the sd corporation by the grater vote of the sd freeholders and inhabitants thereof, and that always within fourteen days after the death or removal of any of them as afors'd.