Besides which, there is a Court of Oyer and Terminer and Jail
Delivery, held eight times a year at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey,
for the trial of criminals.
1. In the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen is lodged the executive
power in a great measure, and by these most of the city officers are
appointed, viz., the recorder, four common pleaders, the comptroller
of the chamber, the two secondaries, the remembrancer, the city
solicitor, the sword-bearer, the common hunt, the water bailiff,
four attorneys of the Lord Mayor's Court, the clerk of the chamber,
three sergeant carvers, three sergeants of the chamber, the sergeant
of the chanel, the two marshals, the hall-keeper, the yeomen of the
chamber, four yeomen of the waterside, the yeoman of the chanel, the
under water-bailiff, two meal weighers, two fruit-meters, the
foreign taker, the clerk of the City works, six young men, two
clerks of the papers, eight attorneys of the Sheriff's Court, eight
clerks fitters, two prothonotaries, the clerk of the Bridge House,
the clerk of the Court of Requests, the beadle of the Court of
Requests, thirty-six sergeants at mace, thirty-six yeomen, the
gauger, the sealers and searchers of leather, the keeper of the
Greenyard, two keepers of the two compters, the keeper of Newgate,
the keeper of Ludgate, the measurer, the steward of Southwark (but
the bailiff of Southwark is appointed by the Common Council) the
bailiff of the hundred of Ossulston, the City artificers, and rent-
gatherer, who hath been put in by Mr. Chamberlain.
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