...Mary restored the lands, and incorporated the inhabitants and burgesses of Sheffield by the name of the Twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the town and parish of Sheffield. They have power to acquire lands, plead and be impleaded, and have a common seal, and fill up the vacancies...

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...granted a Charter to the Town in 1 297. A Charter of Incorporation was granted by Queen Mary in 1554 to the twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the Town and Parish of Sheffield, with the right of a Common Seal ; this was at onco executed, and is inscribed SIGILLUM VILLA DE SHEFFELDE....

...the year 1554. By this deed the inhabitants of Sheffield were constituted a corporate body, entitled the "Twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the town and parish of Sheffield." According to the terms of the charter, twelve resident gentlemen were appointed as the executive body,...

...granted a Charter to the town in 1297. A Charter of Incorporation was granted by Queen Mary in 1554 to the twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the Town and Parish of Sheffield, with the right of a Common Seal ; this was at once executed, and is inscribed SIGILLUM VILLA DE SHEFFELDE,...

...granted a Charter to the town in 1297. A Charter of Incorporation was granted by Queen Mary in 1554 to the twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the Town and Parish of Sheffield, with the right of a Common Seal ; this was at once executed, and is inscribed SIGILLUM VILLA DE SHEFFELDE,...

...was granted, and the burgesses of the town and parish of Sheffield were incorporated by the name of the Twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the Town and Parish of Sheffield, in the county of York, and made for ever one body corporate and politic, with a perpetual succession...

...Freeholders or " Burgesses" electing a "Town Collector." A Royal Charter of 1554 established a second body, the " Twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the Town and Parish of Sheffield," a close council of twelve, renewing itself by co-option, to administer certain property which had been...

...gentleman), Rowland Sheppard (of London), William Willoughby (of London), Francis Earl of Shrewsbury, The Twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the town and parish of Sheffield, Robert Swift esquire, Hugh Smith, Richard Fenton, William Taylour, Robert Moore, William Walton, Robert...

...net si M IT. i ••. , July 13 Hall (T. Walter)— A Catalogue of the ancient charters belonging to the Twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the Town and Parish of Sheffield, usually known as the Church Burgesses ; with abstracts of all Sheffield wills proved at York prior...