Sidenote: The maiors feast first kept at Guildhall.
Beside the great number which deceassed within the citie of London, two maiors successiuelie died within eight daies and six Aldermen.
He also caused the kitchens and other houses of office to be bullded at the Guildhall, where since that time the maiors feasts haue beene kept, which before had beene in the grosers or tailors hall.
Sidenote: One of the maiors officers chosen shiriffe of L[=o]don and lord maior.
Comittees for placeinge of the Companies standingꝭ would have displaced us But by the Lord maiors order wee were placed in the seaventeenth place accordinge as wee ought to be placed.
Alsoe was read to this Court the Lord Maiors letter concerning reliefe of the Protestants in Ireland in the City of London Derry this Court doth order 100{li} to be given towards theire releife presently.
This daye John Stubbes one of my lord maiors officers is appoynted a Serjeant to this Company.
The Maiors wife of the same Citie, when shée died, commaunded in her will, that she shoulde be buried without any pompe or noyse, solemnely vsed at that time.
Soone after also, for the more safegard of the citie, the gates were by the maiors appointment closed and kept with diligent watch and ward both day and night.
The Maiors and Recorders, in some of these, are Iustices of the peace, for their owne limits, and welneere allof them haue large exemptions and iurisdictions.
Warden, or his Vnderwarden, vseth to impannell a Iury of foure and twenty principall Tynners, which consist of sixe out of euery quarter, returnable by the Maiors of the foure Stannery townes, and whose acts doe bind the residue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maiors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
