[833] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 197, 200.
[834] Either officer convicted of false dealing was to lose his office and franchise for ever.
[835] The four chamberlains or treasurers were then to be chosen from the body of burgesses, two by the mayor and jurats, two by the burgesses. But, unlike Norwich, where the council and commons divided the remaining elections between them, in Lynn the only appointment left to the community besides the two chamberlains was the prolocutor. Coroners and constables were nominated by the people, and elected by the jurats, and the other officers, the common clerk, serjeant, janitors, bell-man and wait, taken from the general community both of burgesses and non-burgesses, were directly appointed by the mayor and jurats.
[836] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 196-202. There were “constabularies” which corresponded to wards, over which a captain was appointed in time of war or danger. (Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 167.)
[837] Beloe, Our Borough, 16.
[838] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 191-4.
[839] Beloe, 17, 18. Gross, ii. 170.
[840] Ibid.
[841] Hist. MSS. Com. xi. 3, 195, 203.
[842] Instances of the important place held by the alderman in matters of town government in 1420. (Ibid. 246, and in 1431-42, p. 162-4.)