Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans : the Domesday Book refers to a " new Borough " : as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".
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:: : Small point to correct a mistaken impression-the'House of Commons'is an English version of'House of Communes'because its members represented the communities of the Kingdom; it isn't named because it is the Commonalty as opposed to the nobility.
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:: Of course this is no " rule ", but an English proverb derived from translation of a Roman zoological observation that " As commonly birds of a feather will flye together . " I note that the only commonalty all participants in Wikipedia have is that we are all different!
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Later the Mayor, principal citizens and commonalty of Rochester are enjoined to " preserve and maintain the stocke " so that the " yearely gaine and proffitts thereof riseing shall imploy to the uses and purposes aforesaid . . . principally to the reliefe and comfort of the said poore Travellers ".
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In that year, the House of Commons determined that the right was vested in the " Mayor and Commonalty ", but the term " commonalty " was ambiguous and in 1740 it was held to mean only the freemen of the town rather than all the freeholders, a much more restrictive franchise.
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In that year, the House of Commons determined that the right was vested in the " Mayor and Commonalty ", but the term " commonalty " was ambiguous and in 1740 it was held to mean only the freemen of the town rather than all the freeholders, a much more restrictive franchise.
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In almost all the cities, the form of government was Thirlwall ( vol . i . p . 438 ), that the election of a " tagus ", like that of a Roman dictator, was sometimes used as an expedient for keeping the commonalty under, appears very probable.
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If it is true that the world changed on Sept . 11, it is also true that we have to deal with new realities, that we must shake off the burdens of the past and boldly build new alliances based on commonalties and shared prosperity, and no longer on cold war mind-sets.
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The inhabitants were incorporated by Charles II ., in the fourteenth year of his reign, by the designation of the " Portreeve, Free Burgesses, and Commonalty of the Borough of Tulsk : " the charter also conferred the elective franchise, with power to hold a court of record and a weekly market.
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In the summer of 1649, Mother Mary sent a petition to the " Mayors, Sheriffs, Free Burgesses and Commonalty of the Towne of Galway " stating that, due to excessive rent, they would be obliged to leave their current home at the end of the lease, which occurred the following May.
