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A kingdom, district, or shire in Anglo-Saxon England.

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  • Corporation, and had paid another fine to be relieved of the aldermanry of the ward of Coleman Street.
  • Joseph Lawrence to succeed Sir Owen Buckingham in the aldermanry of the ward of Bishopsgate; that Withers declining to remove, had moved that
  • M500 Colonel Pride elected member of Common Council, 21 Dec. M501 Browne dismissed from parliament and his aldermanry, 4 Dec. 980 He afterwards served on various...
  • He was deprived of his aldermanry of the Ward of Farringdon Without and debarred from ever becoming alderman of any other ward "for causes sufficiently made known" to...
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