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 =Ranks and forms of address=
 *Feudal Rank 3: His Worship X, Mayor of [City] (Requires Status 2-3; Guild Rank: 3+)
 *Feudal Rank 2: The (Right) Honourable X, Elderman of [City Ward] (Requires Status 2+; Guild Rank: 3+)

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 ===Constables===
 <p>The constables (parish constables, or petty constables) are citizens of the parish chosen by the parishioners annually in the presence of the eldermen and wardens of each district, presented to the mayor, and their names enrolled. He has to serve one year, be a ratepayer, or pay not less than £4 a year rent. He has no salary and is only on duty as occasion requires but all his expenses are paid and he enjoys money fees and dues in the discharge of these occasional duties. He has the right to employ someone to perform the role on his behalf (it is often a resented burden that involves a wide variety of extremely time consuming tasks). He is often not the most qualified or upstanding sort, often generally disliked, and is frequently subject to personal danger in the conductance of his job.</p>
-<p>Answering to the local Justice of the Peace (and often the churchwarden), the principle duty of the constable is the preservation of the peace, but he also has to serve summonses and execute warrants. Anyone seeing a "misdeed" is empowered to make an arrest: The role of the constable is as the "eyes and ears" of the court, finding evidence and recording facts on which judges can make a ruling. By extension, the constable is also the "strong arm" of the court (i.e., of the common law). As most parish constables do not wear uniform, normally their only identifiable feature is the staff or truncheon they carry. Ranging in size from 30 centimetres to nearly a metre long, they are often engraved or richly decorated. Carried as a notional badge of office, truncheons provide little defense; many constables and watchmen equip themselves with whatever effective weapon is to hand.</p>
+<p>Answering to the local Justice of the Peace (and often the churchwarden), the principle duty of the constable is the preservation of the peace, but also is the "eyes and ears" of the court, finding evidence and recording facts on which judges can make a ruling. By extension, the constable is also the "strong arm" of the court (i.e., of the common law). As most parish constables do not wear uniform, normally their only identifiable feature is the staff or truncheon they carry. Ranging in size from 30 centimetres to nearly a metre long, they are often engraved or richly decorated. Carried as a notional badge of office, truncheons provide little defense; many constables and watchmen equip themselves with whatever effective weapon is to hand.</p>
 *Each civil parish typically has a small location (watchhouse) in which the constable can confine criminals. The constable is responsible not only for confining such people, but also for delivering them to the courts.
 *They are to report affrays and debates, and make arrests and summonses.

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 <p>The constables (parish constables, or petty constables) are citizens of the parish chosen by the parishioners annually in the presence of the eldermen and wardens of each district, presented to the mayor, and their names enrolled. He has to serve one year, be a ratepayer, or pay not less than £4 a year rent. He has no salary and is only on duty as occasion requires but all his expenses are paid and he enjoys money fees and dues in the discharge of these occasional duties. He has the right to employ someone to perform the role on his behalf (it is often a resented burden that involves a wide variety of extremely time consuming tasks). He is often not the most qualified or upstanding sort, often generally disliked, and is frequently subject to personal danger in the conductance of his job.</p>
 <p>Answering to the local Justice of the Peace (and often the churchwarden), the principle duty of the constable is the preservation of the peace, but he also has to serve summonses and execute warrants. Anyone seeing a "misdeed" is empowered to make an arrest: The role of the constable is as the "eyes and ears" of the court, finding evidence and recording facts on which judges can make a ruling. By extension, the constable is also the "strong arm" of the court (i.e., of the common law). As most parish constables do not wear uniform, normally their only identifiable feature is the staff or truncheon they carry. Ranging in size from 30 centimetres to nearly a metre long, they are often engraved or richly decorated. Carried as a notional badge of office, truncheons provide little defense; many constables and watchmen equip themselves with whatever effective weapon is to hand.</p>
-*Each civil parish typically has a small location (watchhouse) in which the constable can confine criminals. The constable is responsible not only for confining such people, but also for delivering them to the courts. They are to report affrays and debates, and make arrests and summonses.
+*Each civil parish typically has a small location (watchhouse) in which the constable can confine criminals. The constable is responsible not only for confining such people, but also for delivering them to the courts.
 *They are among the people with authority to read the Riot Act, and are expected to do so if a riotous assembly arises in their parish.
 *They are expected to police vagabonds and beggars, who are to be set in the stocks for three days, and then whipped until they leave the parish.

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 ===Constables===
-<p>The constables (parish constables, or petty constables) are merely citizens of the parish chosen by the parishioners annually in the presence of the eldermen and wardens of each district, presented to the mayor, and their names enrolled. He has to serve one year, be a ratepayer, or pay not less than £4 a year rent. He has no salary and is only on duty as occasion requires but all his expenses are paid and he enjoys money fees and dues in the discharge of these occasional duties. The chosen constable has the right to employ someone to perform the role on his behalf—it is often a resented burden, as it involves a wide variety of extremely time consuming tasks. As such, they are often not the most upstanding sort, are not well thought of in general, and are frequently subject to personal danger in the conductance of their job.</p>
+<p>The constables (parish constables, or petty constables) are citizens of the parish chosen by the parishioners annually in the presence of the eldermen and wardens of each district, presented to the mayor, and their names enrolled. He has to serve one year, be a ratepayer, or pay not less than £4 a year rent. He has no salary and is only on duty as occasion requires but all his expenses are paid and he enjoys money fees and dues in the discharge of these occasional duties. He has the right to employ someone to perform the role on his behalf (it is often a resented burden that involves a wide variety of extremely time consuming tasks). He is often not the most qualified or upstanding sort, often generally disliked, and is frequently subject to personal danger in the conductance of his job.</p>
 <p>Answering to the local Justice of the Peace (and often the churchwarden), the principle duty of the constable is the preservation of the peace, but he also has to serve summonses and execute warrants. Anyone seeing a "misdeed" is empowered to make an arrest: The role of the constable is as the "eyes and ears" of the court, finding evidence and recording facts on which judges can make a ruling. By extension, the constable is also the "strong arm" of the court (i.e., of the common law). As most parish constables do not wear uniform, normally their only identifiable feature is the staff or truncheon they carry. Ranging in size from 30 centimetres to nearly a metre long, they are often engraved or richly decorated. Carried as a notional badge of office, truncheons provide little defense; many constables and watchmen equip themselves with whatever effective weapon is to hand.</p>
 *Each civil parish typically has a small location (watchhouse) in which the constable can confine criminals. The constable is responsible not only for confining such people, but also for delivering them to the courts. They are to report affrays and debates, and make arrests and summonses.

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 ===The Vestry===
-Parish ratepayers meet regularly in the parish church vestry, chaired by the incumbent of the parish, often the Patron. This committee is not established by any law, but by convenience. It is primarily concerned with matters local to the parish: the maintenance of the church and its services, the keeping of the peace, the repression of vagrancy, the relief of destitution, the mending of roads, the suppression of nuisances, the destruction of vermin, the furnishing of soldiers and sailors, even to some extent the enforcement of religious and moral discipline. It is also responsible for appointing parish officials, such as the parish clerk, overseers of the poor, sextons and scavengers, constables and nightwatchmen. The decisions and accounts of the vestry committee are administered by the parish clerk, and records of parish business are stored in a "parish chest" kept in the church and provided for security with three different locks, the individual keys to which are held by such as the parish patron and churchwardens.
+Established by convenience, not by law, a committee of parish ratepayers meet regularly in the parish church vestry, chaired by the incumbent of the parish, often the Patron. It is primarily concerned with matters local to the parish: the maintenance of the church and its services, the keeping of the peace, the repression of vagrancy, the relief of destitution, the mending of roads, the suppression of nuisances, the destruction of vermin, the furnishing of soldiers and sailors, even to some extent the enforcement of religious and moral discipline. It is also responsible for appointing parish officials, such as the parish clerk, overseers of the poor, sextons and scavengers, constables and nightwatchmen. The decisions and accounts of the vestry committee are administered by the parish clerk, and records of parish business are stored in a "parish chest" kept in the church and provided for security with three different locks, the individual keys to which are held by such as the parish patron and churchwardens.
 ===Constables===

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 =Other Features=
 ==Guilds==
 The guilds of the Capital are all designed to protect and further the social and economic interests of their membership. While not all of the Guilds have been granted or have been able to maintain a monopoly on the services and crafts they provide, they can nevertheless present a united front to any form of competition and have a recognized degree of political influence with the city council. On the first days of each season of the year, the Grand Council of Guilds meets at City Hall. All the city's Guildmasters are required to attend (and must send deputies should they be unable to do so). This meeting is used to discuss petitions and legislation before the city council that may affect the trade or business of one or more of the city's guilds, and allegedly serves the purpose of granting those city guilds not directly represented in the council a say in the city's governance.

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 *Feudal Rank 3: His Worship X, Mayor of [City] (Requires Status 2-3; Guild Rank: 3+)
 *Feudal Rank 2: The (Right) Honourable X, Elderman of [City Ward] (Requires Status 2+; Guild Rank: 3+)
-*Feudal Rank 1: Master X, Councilor of [City] (Requires Status 1+; Guild Rank: 3+)
+*Feudal Rank 1: The Honourable X, Councilor of [City] (Requires Status 1+; Guild Rank: 3+)
-*Feudal Rank 1: Master X, Bailiff of [City] (Requires Status 1+; Guild Rank: 3+)
+*Feudal Rank 1: The Honourable X, Bailiff of [City] (Requires Status 1+; Guild Rank: 3+)
 *Feudal Rank 0; Master X, Warden of [City Ward] (Status 0+)
 *Feudal Rank 0; Master X, Captain of [City Ward] (Status 0+)

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 *Feudal Rank 1; Master X, Warden of [City Ward] (Status 0+)
 *Feudal Rank 1; Master X, Captain of [City Ward] (Status 0+)
-*Feudal Rank 0; Master X, Constable of [City Parish] (Status: 0+)
+*Feudal Rank 0; Master X, Constable of [City Parish]
 =Other Features=

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 ===Constables===
 <p>The constables (parish constables, or petty constables) are merely citizens of the parish chosen by the parishioners annually in the presence of the eldermen and wardens of each district, presented to the mayor, and their names enrolled. He has to serve one year, be a ratepayer, or pay not less than £4 a year rent. He has no salary and is only on duty as occasion requires but all his expenses are paid and he enjoys money fees and dues in the discharge of these occasional duties. The chosen constable has the right to employ someone to perform the role on his behalf—it is often a resented burden, as it involves a wide variety of extremely time consuming tasks. As such, they are often not the most upstanding sort, are not well thought of in general, and are frequently subject to personal danger in the conductance of their job.</p>
 <p>Answering to the local Justice of the Peace (and often the churchwarden), the principle duty of the constable is the preservation of the peace, but he also has to serve summonses and execute warrants. Anyone seeing a "misdeed" is empowered to make an arrest: The role of the constable is as the "eyes and ears" of the court, finding evidence and recording facts on which judges can make a ruling. By extension, the constable is also the "strong arm" of the court (i.e., of the common law). As most parish constables do not wear uniform, normally their only identifiable feature is the staff or truncheon they carry. Ranging in size from 30 centimetres to nearly a metre long, they are often engraved or richly decorated. Carried as a notional badge of office, truncheons provide little defense; many constables and watchmen equip themselves with whatever effective weapon is to hand.</p>
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 ===The Elderman===
 The elderman is the most senior official or representative in the ward. Election to the ranks of the eldermen is made by the mayor and remaining eldermen as vacancies occur due to death, old age, or ill health. Eldermen are drawn exclusively, and the councilors preponderantly, from the class of wealthy traders, belonging to the manufacturing crafts and merchants. Such eldermen are usually elected from among the guild brothers, mostly from among those who had been an elderman before, or a bailiff, or an assessor of the guild (this indicates that before election they had been members of the merchant guild approximately twenty years). The eldermen receive no salary for their duties, thus having simultaneously to maintain their merchant activities. An elderman remains a member of the guild; he does not participate in all of the social events of the guild, although he does participate in the guild’s most important festivals and feasts.
 *Both eldermen and councilors are to have robes of violet, murrey, and crimson, and eldermen also robes of scarlet which those who have served as mayor are to wear on all civic occasions.
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 ===The Captain===
 A captain (or ward constable) is in charge of a ward and responsible for levying money in it for the repair of the walls, and managing the militia. The raising of troops, and money for their wages, and the inspection of the arms in the hands of citizens are all organized by ward; also the captains are responsible for opening and closing the city gates.
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 ===The Mayor===
 <p>The mayor is elected annually (often on Midwinter Feast Day) from amongst the eldermen of the city; re-election is common. The election of a mayor also occurs whenever the old mayor dies, retires, resigns, or fails a no-confidence vote consisting of a two-thirds majority of the council. It is his duty, which he swears to accomplish, to keep the city safe for the king, to maintain and advance its franchises, usages, and customs, and to do impartial justice to all. He is active in the various courts of the city and is the central figure in the city council. He is the recipient of mandates from the central government on every conceivable matter. He is escheator within the liberty, his name being certified to Chancery in this capacity as soon as he is elected. He acts as a liaison to the king in all civic matters. If the mayor's responsibility is great, so too is his dignity. He has a serjeant to bear his mace of office, who precedes him at all official duties, and a number of esquires and other assistants. The mayor does not serve gratis; the normal fee in is [£20] yearly.
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 =====Councilors=====
 Like the eldermen, the councilors serve, unless promoted to the assembly, until removed by death or discharge. The qualification for membership is, if enough such men are available, previous service as bailiff. Both eldermen and councilors are sworn to aid and obey the mayor in all matters; and are ordered to accompany him, and not their crafts, in all processions
 ===Bailiffs===
 <p>There is one bailiff per city district. Their duties are summarized in the bailiff's oath. They have to acquit the city of its farm, enforce the assizes of bread and ale and other market regulations, empanel jurors, do justice to rich and poor, and collect the issues of the city courts. Alone or in conjunction with the mayor, they are the addressees of mandates from the central government; and, as the officers responsible for the farm, they have at their disposal all the profits and commodities pertaining to the office from ancient times. These are husgable, rents from city property, tolls, stallrents in the markets, and the issues of fairs, and courts. Like the mayor, the bailiffs have their assistants and their dignity. Each has his serjeant-at-mace, responsible for making summonses, arrests, and so forth; and there is a bailiff's clerk, originally appointed annually but also during good behaviour. The bailiffs move about the city in some state, with a serjeant preceding them and an honest servant at their back.</p>
 *They are not, however, allowed to enter freehold dwellings (the palaces and houses of the nobility, the ruling class), nor Church buildings or the University, a fact students take advantage of.
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 *The Mayoral Court, including the mayor and eldermen, meets from day to day at their discretion to deal with matters touching apprentices, offences against the customs and ordinances of the city, the faults of victuallers and craftsmen and civic officers, nuisances, rumour-mongers, disturbers of the peace, forgers of seals and charters, murders, thefts, burglaries, armed assaults, and made orders for governing the city and keeping the peace.
 **In some cases, the Mayor and Shariff's Court
 =Other Features=