An Essay on English Municipal History (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Essay on English Municipal HistoryHistory of Boroughs and Municipal Corporations by Sergeant Merewether and 1\-'ir.arehibald J ohn Stephens, barrister-at-law, whose work (published in 1835) is a monument of extensive research and profound erudition. Its purpose was to prove that while boroughs were in existence, in the Saxon period and subsequently - by the term borough meaning a town having a jurisdiction separate from that of the surrounding rural districts municipal corporations were unknown until the corn niencement of the reign of Henry VI., when a charter of incorporation was granted to the inhabitants of Kingston upon-hull and that it was not until more than a century later that boroughs generally became known as Corpora tions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.