Catalogue description Book of constitutions and rules called "The regestar governor or dormont book of the commonwelth of the inhabitance within the citie of Carlell Renewed ...1561"

Contents as follows:-

pp 1-7r. Form of oath to be taken by a mayor, bailiff, chamberlain, clerk, sergeant, attorney, coroner and freeman 16th C

pp 1-7v. 8-35 blank

p 36 index to the rules of 1561 following, dated 18 June 1667

pp 37-38 blank

p 39 Prologue, reasons for making and setting down the rules following, dated 9 July 1561

pp 40-50r., 54-56r., 57-9, 61-2, 64, rules

pp 53v., 56v., 60, 63, blank

pp 65-66r. Signatures of the city officers and of 4 representatives of each gild, allowing the rules.

p 66v. blank

p 67r. Additional rules 8 November 1594

p 67v. Order made in court leet, 24 October 1609

p 68 blank

p 69r. enrolled agreement between Thomas Jackson and John Pattinson to submit to arbitration, their respective rights to the office of Town Clerk, 11 December 1660

p 69v. blank

p. 70r. Copy arbitration award, the dispute between Jackson and Pattinson, p. 69r. above.

12 January 1660/1

p 70v-72 blank

p 72r. Enrolled declarations against the Solemn League and Covenant, 9 October 1662

p 72v. blank

pp 72-74r., 75-84r., 85r., 86r., 87-88r. Declarations against the Solemn League and Covenant, 1663-1689

pp 74v., 84v., 85v., 86v., 88v-89r. blank

p 89v., Certification, stamp duty, 1909 and 1911

pp 90-109r. Register of honorary freemen, 1889-1951

pp 90-109v., 110-127r. blank

p 127v. Signatures of distinguished visitors to Carlisle, 1929-1932

pp 128-175 blank

pp 176-260, 262v., Register of apprentices, 1672, 1675-1849 inverted, working from back to front

pp 261-262r., 263r., blank

pp 263v-272, 275-279, 280v-281, 282v. Register of deeds of sale of certain burgage houses in the city 1654/5-1659.

pp 280r., 282r., 283-285r., blank

pp 273-274 blank

p 286v. Note "The city booke"

Honorary Freemen of Carlisle enrolled in the Dormont Book

J.R.Creighton 1889; R.S. Ferguson 1896; W.I.R. Crowder 1898; W.C.Gully, Q.C., M.P., 1899; Speaker of the House of Commons, M.P. for Carlisle; Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, 1902; Sir Benjamin Scott 1907; Hon. J.W. Lowther, M.P., 1908 Speaker of the House of Commons, M.P. for Penrith and Mid-Cumberland; T. Woodrow Wilson, 1918 President of the U.S.A.; Gen. Sir J.S. Cowans 1919; Sir F.W.Chance 1921; George White J.P., 1921; Ald. F.P. Dixon 1921; A.H. Collingwood 1924; Ernest Page 1926, Recorder of Carlisle; J.P. Buck, J.P., 1926; Miss M.E. Creighton 1927; Ald. T. Ridley 1933; Archibald Creighton 1935; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein 1947; Herbert Atkinson J.P.,1951

Oaths and orders transcribed in Ferguson & Nanson "Municipal Records" pp 47-87