town-motes

Updated: June 23, 2025

Was it quite by an oversight, for instance, that in Sampson's old age, "in some way, I don't quite know how, the new alderman of the town got chosen in other places than in chapter, and without leave of the house," in simple town-motes, that is, and by sheer downright delegation of power on the part of his fellow-burgesses?

John Richard Greene - Stray Studies from England and Italy