The Black book of Southampton

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tributor to the own burdens and this quali fi Cation apparently Continue throughout the fifteenth century since late in that Centur Damyan de Peyga state in a Chancer petition that he had live fifteen 3 ear in Southampton pati SCO and Ot,

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This locat seli-govertamen and independenC may aCCOunt forthe mixture icia and lawlessness hi Ch the histor os oulhampton At hi time presents. On the ne hand the Black Bookgives a vie ona town in hi h industr is regulate by publicordi nance important transactions e tween individual arepubli Cly registered disputes a re referre to a legat tribunal attention is pati to public morai and the whole Communi tyseem to live unde strict orde and regulation. ut a very different picture is presente by evidenCe rom ther OUrCeS.

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mission to the mayor, balliss and ther urgesses of outhamp-ton to inquire into the matte and do justice. Unluchily this laudabie Command must osten have been difficult os execution

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tion to order. Nor mus it he imagine d that these turbulent burghers e re ithout locat patriotism. Joliti Polymon bullithe oolmouse whicli stili exigis Thomas id lyngton mayor

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great Genoes trader, Demetri pinelli, Compla ined that Paynelia arreste him for the debis os ne Andre Spinelli and had obtained judgmen against im in the own Court very

whether Irom sonae political motive, oes no appear ut at alleveritS, PRyne R. leposed rom his mayorali by order of the hin g, and was suCCeeded by alter FetplaCe.'It is possibi that Payne' fati martis the disappearanCe of the part of ire election to the time. At ali evenis, hereare distinc signs os ligarchi development in the rei gn ofEdwar IU. In the ordinan Ces of this perio the consent of the Commonalty V seem to have been o longe requisite. The firS set, hos of 482-regulatin the procedure in the Town

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that formali 3 adopted more than wO hundred ear later, henin 173 it was decide that the Common Councti hould consist

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shout be signe by the laldermen, ghryve an diSCretes the 12 juratis ith dyvers other burgayses, ' and ordaine by the mayor illi the assent of the ou Aldermen the Shryss, the iiii discreis, the xii Jurettes, the Bayliff, BurgeySe and comnalty V a formula a fuit, and presumabi implyin a greata degre o popular Agreement a that CCurring on the firstpage of the Blach Book a hundred ear earlier. HenCe a Surve of the ordinances in the lach Book, asCompared with the Charier an generat event of the time, cloes Certaint suggest the dea os an increasin tendenCy owardsoligarCh in Southampton culmina ting in the rei gni Edward IV, an followed by a Constitutional re vivat unde Henr VII.

instea Oilein Compellet to ruri the risiis of the Charine by