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of London stipulated that every future Lord Mayor should "have previously been Sheriff so that he may be tried as to his governance and bounty before he attains to the Estate of Mayoralty"; this tradition continues to this day.
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for the privilege. This did not make the county a dependency of the City but rather from that time the City of London and Middlesex were viewed as a single administrative area.
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in 1215. As such, the sheriffs were relegated to a less senior role in the running of the city, and became subordinate to the mayor. The mayor (later
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by acclamation, unless a ballot is demanded from the floor, which takes place within fourteen days. The returning officers at the Common Hall are the
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had sheriffs, usually two at a time. The sheriffs were the most important city officials and collected London's annual taxes on behalf of the royal
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appointed in the same manner as other English and Welsh counties. At the same time, the most populous parts of Middlesex were included in the new
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are reserved for their and the Lord Mayor's use, with the Sword of the City hanging behind the bench. It is an invariable custom that the
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Corbets complete collection of state trials (From the Thirty-fourth to the Thirty-sixth year of the reign of King Charles II)
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The sheriffs live in the Old Bailey during their year of service, so that one of them can always be attendant on the
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By a "custom of immemorial usage in the City", the two sheriffs are elected at the Midsummer Common Hall by the
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As elected officers from the 7th century (excepting 1067 to 1132), the sheriffs' jurisdiction covers the
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for the City of London (along the lines of some European cities of the time such as
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In 1889 the jurisdiction of the sheriffs was restricted to the City. The
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Howell, Thomas Bayly; Howell, Thomas Jones; Cobbett, William;
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in a city, town or shire, responsible for collecting
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Index

Sheriff of London

City of London
livery companies
Old Bailey
Middlesex
judges
bench
Lord Mayor of London
Liverymen
Recorder of London
Circuit Judge
Central Criminal Court
square mile of the City of London
Middlesex
High Sheriff of Greater London
sheriff
shire
reeve
Anglo-Saxon
English history
king
taxes
Norman Conquest
City of London
exchequer
judicial
king
Henry I
charter

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