The postulator, who is the mandatory of a diocese or ecclesiastical commonalty, is the solicitor. |
To work out electoral procedures for the new city officers, a body of 80 persons was created to represent the commonalty. |
Those of Maldon, it is stated in the sixteenth century recension of the custumal, were customarily made by bailiffs, burgesses, freemen, and commonalty. |
For the city of Saint John, the mayor, alderman and commonalty were to appoint the enumerators. |
He then addresses the commonalty in a speech, desiring them to proceed to a new election. |
The sires had been persons whom it had been possible for the commonalty to respect. |