Oldal 130 [130]
108 THE CITY GOVERNMENT
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more, and who, according to the Saxon Chronicle, when he had —
‘restored London” in 886, " committed the burgh to the keeping of j
the alderman Aithelred,” his brother-in-law. When we next meet with —
the word it has changed its meaning, and is applied somewhat indis- —
criminately to
leaders of
as to the rulers
latter sense, in
used as early
have only
ask further
It seems prob¬
after the time
certainly about
Norman Con¬
was __ parcelled
or manors, and
had its alder¬
and chief being
That the
alderman is a
guilds, as well —
of wards. This —
which it is ©
as I111, is that ;
bears. We @
therefore to —
what isa ward. —
able that soon —
of Alfred, and |
the time of the |
quest, London ]
out intoestates —
each manor —
man, the first —
the bishop. —
bishop was an —
newly’ dis- 7
round St. Paul’s. ‘The jurisdiction of the alderman was similar to that
of the lord of a manor in the country, and even after the alderman —
ceased actually to own the land of his ward, he continued to exercise
these rights. At first, aldermanries could be inherited, transferred or —
sold, but by degrees the office became elective, as it is still. 3
The Common Council has been mentioned; another body of ©
citizens, the Livery, has still to be described. These are the members —