and mysteries, and that every such guild may have and use several affairs and marks, in note and difference of their fraternities and my steries, and that every such guild may have, and build one distinct hall or place within the said town. Whereas the brothers of such a guild may gather themselves together, and that every such guild or fraternity, for every year, may be able and of power to elect and appoint one guardian, or master, or two guardians or masters, being of the same fraternity, to exercise the office of master or guardian for one whole year, and no more; aud furthermore, we have granted unto the said mayor, sheriff, burgesses, and commonalty of Knockfergus a foresaid, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant unto the said mayor, sherills, burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Knockfergus, for ever, that no burgess inhabitant comorating or residing within the franchises and liberties of Knockfergus aforesaid, or any of them, at any time hereafter to come, shall be drawn or compelled to come out of the franchises and liberties of the said town of Kuockfergus aforesaid, before us, our heirs and successors, in our chief place, or the chief places of our heirs or successors, which shall be then in Ireland, or before any our justices, barons, commoners, or other officers of our heirs or successors, whatsoever assigned and appointed to hold and keep assizes, sessions, or inquisitions, in our county of Antrim, or in any place else within our realm of Ireland, to enquire for any thing, cause, or matter, or for any things, causes, or matters whatsoever, heretofore done, perpetrated, or arisen, or hereafter to be done, perpetrated, or arising within the said town of Knockfergus, or franchises and li

berties of the same town, although it concern or touch us, and that none of the burgesses, inhabiting, comorating, or residing within the said town, or the franchises, and liberties of the same town, at any time hereafter, may be put, empanneled, returned, or sworn, or any one of them may be put, impanelled,

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sworn out of the said town of Knockfergus, and the county of the town aforesaid, for any thing, cause, or matter, or for any things or matters heretofore begun, done, happened, or grown, or hereafter to be done, perpetrated, arising or grown within the said town of Knockferfergus, or within the franchises and liberties of the same, before any one justices, barons, commissioners, or any other officers, or the officers of our heirs or successors whatsoever, at any assizes or any other inquisitions whatsoever, to be taken, arraigned or returned in the said county of Antrim, or in any where else in our realm of Ireland, although it concern us only in our town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and the franchises, liberties, and county of the same, before our justices, barons, commissioners of our officers, or the justices, barons, commissioners, and officers of our heirs and successors, from time to time, as it shall seem expedient to us. Provided, notwithstanding, that the burgesses, inhabitants, comorating, or residing within the said town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and liberties of the same town of Knockfergus, for the other tenures of their lands and tenements without the same town, and the franchises and liberties of the same, may answer in our courts, or the courts of our heirs and successors at Dublin, or elsewhere within our realm of Ireland aforesaid, according to the laws and customs of our said realm of Ireland. Provided also, and the said mayor,

sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the said town of Knockfergus, for them, their heirs, and successors, do agree, grant, and promise, to us, our heirs, and successors, that all, and singular, our justices and commissioners, and the justices and commissioners of our heirs and successors, for gaol delivery, there, or for to enquire, hear and determine, all and every manner of treason, as well of the great as of the small, as of murders, burnings, felonies, imprisonments, trespasses, and of all other crimes and offences whatsoever, or sworn to hold or keep any assizes whatsoever, within the said town of Carrickfergus, or within the liberties, franchises, or county of the same town aforesaid, from time to time for ever, as often as they shall be sent or assigned by us, or by our heirs and successors, into the said town and the franchises and liberties and county of the same, they may sit in the tholsell of the said town of Knockfergus, or in any where else within the said town, and the liberties and county of the same, in what place soever they will, and there may, from time to time, execute our commissions,

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the commissions of our heirs and successors in that behalf, according to the tenor and force of them. And we further will and for us, our heirs and successors, grant unto the foresaid mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commissioners of the foresaid town, and their successors, that they, at their own pleasure, within two years next ensuing the date of these presents, may be able to ordain a certain convenient place in the same town, franchises and suburbs of the same, for a gaol or prison of the same, for the arresting or attaching of any persons, for any treasons, felonies, transgressions, misdeeds, offences, or any other matter or cause whatsoever, or to the said jail, to be

committed, and there according to the law of our realm of Ireland, safely and carefully to be imprisoned and kept until such time as according to the law and custom of our foresaid realm of Ireland, they shall be thence delivered, as also for to keep the like prisoners, or any of them, in the said prisons by themselves, or their ministers, being thus committed and imorisoned, or else according to due form of law, to deliver them, or set them at large, and that the mayor, sheriff, burgesses, and commonalty of the foresaid town, and their successors, or the greater part of them, of whom, &c. may have full power and authority to choose, nominate, constitute, and appoint one fit person of the same, from time to time, as often as it shall be needful to be keeper or constable of the said jail and that all, and every such persons thus chosen, constituted, or appointed, and no other, nor any others, shall be keepers and constables, and may have the keeping of the said gael, or prison, and of all, and singular, the prisoners in the same, from time to time imprisoned, during the pleasure of the said mayor, sheriff, burgesses, and commonalty, and their successors, for the time being, or the greater part of them, (of whom, &c.) and that every such keeper or constable of the said jail, before he receive his said office, shall take his corporal oath, for the true and faithful administration and execution of the said office of keeper or constable of the said gaol, before the mayor and sheriff for the time being, and that every such keepers and constables of the foresaid gaol, shall have, levy, and receive, from time to time, for ever, as many fees, veils, rewards, commodities, perfitts, emoluments, and advantages, as the keepers of our gaol in the county of Antrim,

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gor elsewhere, are accustomed to receive levy, or have, for or by reason of his office, and that the ! now mayor and recorder of the same town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and all, and singular, the other mayors and recorders, which shall be for the time from thenceforth for ever hereafter, shall be our justices, and the justices of our heirs and successors, for gol delivery in the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, for felons and other prisoners remaining in the said jail, for the causes and matters aforesaid, according to the laws and customs of our realm of Ireland, as often as it shall please themselves, as also that the now mayor and recorders of the same town for the time being. may have full power and authority to do, perform, and exercise all things concerning all, and singular, the premises which any other our justices for gaol delivery within our realm of Ireland, may be able to do, perform and execute.

We have also granted for us our heirs and successors, unto the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty, and their successors, that they may be able within the same town, or the franchises and suburbs thereof, at their will and pleasure to build and to erect gallowses; and that may do, and execute, and be able to do full execution and judgment upon all felons and malefactors upon the same, according to the laws and customs of our realm of Ireland, without any our hindrance or impediment, or the hindrance of our heirs and successors, or any other our justices, officers, or ministers, or the justices, officers, or ministers of our heirs or successors; and furthermore, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, with the aforesaid assent, we give and grant, for us, our heirs and successors, to the said mayor,

sheriff, burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, and to their successors for ever, full power and authority, from time to time, to name, choose, and appoint four serjeants, with maces, or clubs, to attend upon the mayor and sherifls of the same town for the time being within the aforesaid town of Knockfergus, and to do and execute all summonses, distresses, attachments, and other mandates, and precepts of the court of the said town of Knockfergus, as well upon the body as otherwise, within the town and county of the town aforesaid, and the franchises and liberties of the same, by virtue of any warrant or precept, or any other process, to them, or any of them, directed, or to be directed, and to do and execute all other things whatsoever to the office of serjeant at mace doth appertain, and that one of the said serjeants from time to time shall be nominated and called the water-bailiff of the said town of Knockfergus, and that any such servitor or serjeant whatsoever, for the time being, shall be water-bailiff of the same town, shall have the only power and authority of executing and serving of all process, precept, warrant, and mandate, and of doing all other things whatsoever doth appertain to the office of water-bailiff; to be done upon the main-sea, or upon any arm of sea, or upon any part of the bay, creek, or river of Knockfergus aforesaid, between Beer lomes and Fair furlongs, near Knockfergus; and that these like officers, or ministers, thus chosen or appointed, and every of them, shall take their corporal oath, or oaths, before the mayor of the same town for the time being, to serve with their maces as water-bailiffs, as is used in the said town, or respectively in any other town in our realm of Ireland,

And we further will, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and successors, graut unto the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of Knockfergus aforesaid, and to their successors, that the mayor of the same town, and his successors, for the time being, from henceforth for ever hereafter, at their own will and pleasure, so long as it shall seem fit unto the said mayor or mayors, that he or they may be able, and of power, to have a sword before him in any place whatsoever within the town of Knockfergus, and the county of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, carried and borne by some honest and fit man, which shall be chosen and appointed by the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of the said town of Knockfergus aforesaid, from time to time, as often as it shall be needful in the like business, after the same manner and form as is used in any other town or city before any other mayor, in any other towns or cities within our realm of Ireland, and that the said mayor, sheriff, burgesses, and commonalty of the town aforesaid, and their successors, by their said serjeants and water-bailifl's, or by any one or more of them, may have power and authority, to attach, arrest, and distrain the bodies of all manner of person and persons, for all manner of pleas, debts, accounts, trespasses, conventions, replevins and returns of cattle, and for ejetione firme, and all other actions personal whatsoever, within the town and county of the town of Knockfergus, and in and within the franchises and liberties of the same, as well within the inclosed and arable land as without, after what manner soever they have been done, or arising, or after any manner have been moved, or shall happen to be moved before the mayor and sheriff's of the aforesaid town for the time being.

We likewise grant for us, our heirs and successors, unto the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty aforesaid, their successors, for the time being, that they may have a full power and authority, from time to time for ever, at their will and pleasure, to choose, notiate, appoint, and ordain constables, and porters, and all other inferior officers and ministers, which to the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty aforesaid, and to their successors, shall seem necessary for doing and executing the laws, businesses, and services. And that we our heirs and successors from time to time, and for ever, do allow such and the like officers thus to be elected, appointed, notiated, and constituted (as aforesaid), and by these presents do establish them in their said offices, giving, and by these presents granting unto the said officers, full power and authority of using and executing within the town and county aforesaid, and within the limits and precincts of the same, of all and every thing which doth belong or appertain to the said oflìces respectively to be done or executed.

And furthermore of our more abundant special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we have granted, and by these presents for us, our heirs, and successors, do grant unto the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, to their successors for ever, may have a court in the said town aforesaid, and that they may be able and of power to keep the said court twice every week for ever; (to wit), every Monday and every Friday in every week in the tholsell, in the said town, or any other convenient place within the same town, without our impediment, or the impediment of our heirs and successors, or our justices, deputies, escheators, sheriffs, se

neschals, bailiffs, or any other our ministers or officers whatsoever, or the officers and ministers of our heirs and successors, to be held before the mayor of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, for the time being, or his successors, or before his deputy or deputies, to hear, examine, and discuss all and all manner of actions, suits, complaints, and demands, of all and all manner of debts, to what sums or sums soever they do or shall amount unto, of all manner of trespasses, detevns., accounts, covenants, detail contracts, causes, and demands, and matters whatsoever, within the town and county of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, or either of them, and that the same court may be a court of record, and that all and every the mayors of the said town for the time being, and their deputies, in their several offices, and any of them, may have full power and authority aud jurisdiction, to hold, hear, examine, and discuss, and end all and every the pleas and complaints a foresaid, either by our writ or writs or by the writ or writs of our heirs and successors whatsoever, or by bill or bills of complaint, or complants whatsoever, according to the due form of law, and to proceed to judgment in and upon the same, and afterwards to do execution as it shall be consonant and agreeable to our laws. And that all and every such action, pleas, and complaint, happening or befalling within the aforesaid town, or county of the same town of Knockfergus aforesaid, done, or to be done, applied, or to be applied, in the same town of Knockfergus aforesaid, or in the county of the town of Knockfergus aforesaid, shall be pleaded and kept before the mayor of the town aforesaid, and his successors, for the time being, in the tholsell or courthouse aforesaid, and not elsewhere,

nor in any other court or courts whatsoever, nor in the court or courts of our heirs or sucessors whatsoever, nor before any one or any others our justice or justices, or the justice or justices of our heirs and successors, unless it be for the want of justice in that behalf there to be had.

And moreover, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs and successors, we do grant unto the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, conmonalty of the aforesaid town, and to their successors, that for all and every the aforesaid actions, and complaints, and pleas, to be prosecuted and held before the mayor, process may be had or inade by summons, attachment, distress, and capias, or by any other processes, according to the laws of our realm of Ireland, as the cause shall require. And farthermore, of our more plentiful special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion we will and by these presents, for us, our heris, and successors, do give and grant unto the said mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commonalty, and to their successors for ever, that they and their successors for ever in time to come, may have, and in their own power retain, from time to time, to their own proper use and behoof all, and singular, the fines, penalties, forfeitures, and amercements, growing or arising in the said court to be held as aforesaid, before the mayor of the said town, or by reason of the aforesaid court, or in any other court or courts, held or to be held within the aforesaid town, or within the county of the aforesaid town, or within any of them, before the mayor of the aforesaid town, or before the eschetor, clerk of the market, coroners, sheriffs, or any other justices of the peace in the said county of the town aforesaid, or before our justice, or the justices of our heirs and