Date:1590
Description:During the Medieval and Tudor periods many towns received a Charter of Incorporation. A charter is a formal document granting rights given by a king or queen written by clerks in the royal chancery. The charter given to Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1590 sets out who should run the town. It names the Mayor, two bailiffs and twenty-four capital burgesses. By becoming a 'corporation' they could act in the interests of the town. They could sue (and be sued) and own land on behalf of the town. The council elected its own members without asking the townsfolk. This undemocratic principle existed until 1835. Digitisation project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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Newcastle was granted a ‘Gild Merchant Charter’ by King Henry III in 1235. A charter ...
Parliamentarians executed King Charles I in 1649. England had no king and became ...
In 1684 King Charles II forced Newcastle to surrender all its charters. Charters ...
Oil on board depicting cartoon detail of images that were considered by the artist ...
These maps were surveyed in 1851 by the Ordnance Survey Department in accordance ...
John Gallimore, wearing robes and chains of office. Gallimore was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
A view of the rear of the Guildhall, looking down the High Street. The Guildhall ...
This photograph of Penkhull Street in Newcastle was taken in 1927 and shows canopied ...
The Mayor Choosing ceremony is a tradition in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The newly ...
A group of people in period costume handing out newspapers advertising Octocentenary ...
Watercolour signed by Alf Fallows and dated 1995 depicting the Guildhall clock and ...
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During the Medieval and Tudor periods many towns received a Charter of Incorporation. A charter is ...
The charter is very long and is written on two large pieces of parchment bound along one edge. This ...
This page is bound on top of the first page. Instead of signing every charter a monarch used a great ...
Tudor charters were larger and more impressive looking than Medieval charters. There is also an image ...
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Image courtesy of: Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
Donor ref:Nm.2016.3 (R) (22/49639)
Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme
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