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In the fifteenth year of Edward IV. the Common Council enacted, that the masters, wardens, and probi homines of the several mysteries should repair to the Guildhall in their last liveries, for the purpose of electing the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, and other civic officers; and that the members of the Common Council should be the only other persons present.
"Arantur Gallicana rura barbaris bobus, et juga Germanica captiva praebent colla nostris cultoribus." Probi Epist. ad Senatum in Vopesio. Pursued to its very grave by the same deep-rooted cause of evil, the strength of Italy, even in the last stages of its decay, was still prostrated by the importation of grain from Egypt and Lybia.
But he was familiar with the history of the thing he knew that ever since the days of Edward IV the Coroner had held his sitting, super visum corporis, with the aid of at least twelve jurymen, probi et legales homines, there was scarcely in all the range of English legal economy an office more ancient.
The representatives of the companies were chosen from the former, and are mentioned in the charters as probi homines.
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