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Title: The history and antiquities, ancient and modern, of the Borough of Reading, in the County of Berks
Year: 1816 (1810s)
Authors: Man, John, of Reading, Eng
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Publisher: Reading : Printed by Snare and Man
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rendons letters to the lord treasurer, datedin 1689, thanking him forgetting the assizes to be kept at Abingdon, that both the assizes, prior tothis time, were held at Reading, but several instances might be adduced, of their having occasionallybeen held at Abingdon, long before this period, and therefore the passage in question, could meannothing more, than to thank him for having got that fixed, which was before uncertain. While thejudges are here on the circuit, their expences aie defrayed by the corporation, without any limitation,but formerly they were allowed one mutton, one veal, three barrels of beer, one gallon of sack, andone gallon of claret.—Corporation Diary, 164.O, + Satis probatum est, quod vxL. in Gaynz et xls. in forinseco hundredo de Rading nondebentallocari Vicecomiti; quia sine illis habet Vicecomes in terris Assisis unde plene respondeat ad summam Corpus Comitatusei v solidos plus.—McWior, II, H. 3. Rot, 10. Berks/lire, Maddox Hist, of the Exchequer, page 652,
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i TOWN OF READING. 129 Whereupon the corporation resisted the payment, and the county justices Chap.committed the constable of St. Lawrences parish to the county gaol, for not VIl-levying the fine; but, on the cause being heard at the assizes, a verdict ^Yas ^*^^*^given in favor of the town. The corporation likewise rebuilt the High-bridge, of a light and elegantconstruction, with stone,* in the room of the old wooden bridge, which wasoften dangerous to the public, and at all times incommodious. The alms-houses were also mostly rebuilt, or put into the best state of repair,to the great comfort of the individuals who resided in them, as well as to thecredit of the members of the corporation, who thus judiciously expended thefunds entrusted to their care, instead of squandering them in their annualfeasts, which had been too much practised by their predecessors. Here are three parish churches: St. Marys, St. Giless, and St. Law-rences, which we shall speak of hereafter ; and several meet

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