[The record of these ordinances in B.M. Add.Ms.37791 is badly damaged and parts are difficult to read.]

• Because the community recognizes that the office is burdensome and costly, it is agreed that if a burgess is elected mayor, accepts the office, takes oath and serves for the year, then he is exempt from holding the same office for two years following.
  [This item is struck through, with the note "voided by common assent".]
• Each mayor, if he has served diligently and preserved the honour of the town, is to receive £20 for his fee and shall be exempt from taxation during his year in office; if not, then he shall have only £10 and exemption from his tax.
• If anyone elected as mayor refuses to accept the office, he shall pay £20 to the community in return for being discharged from the office for a period of two years (but shall be exempted from taxation during the first year). If he refuses to pay the £20, the community may use all powers at its disposal to levy the amount from him. In cases where the person elected mayor is absent [at the time of his election], he may come at a later time and offer the £20 to be discharged. Any burgess elected chamberlain may, if he wishes, be exempted from holding the same office again during the next two years, on condition that he renders account within 15 days [of leaving office] for all expenses and receipts. No-one is to be made a chamberlain unless a burgess and sufficient for that office.
  [This item is struck through, with the note "voided by common assent, 14 August 1395". The reference to a chamberlain being "sufficient" likely refers to having the means by which to be distrainable for any arrears owing to the community.]
• No mayor is to place any charges [i.e. taxes or other financial commitments] on the community without the aid and counsel of his comburgesses and commoners.
  [The comburgesses are presumably the jurats, and the commoners are other townsmen summoned to participate in assemblies – possibly this was on an ad hoc or rotational basis prior to the creation of a Common Council.]
• The 12 burgesses who are elected to give counsel to the mayor and who elect another 12 to their number – the which 24 (or the majority of them) may, by advice of the mayor and chamberlains, ordain as seems profitable [to the community].
• Because burgesses [have proven] unwilling to appear before the mayor to give aid and counsel regarding matters concerning the community, it is ordained that if any burgess is summoned, by the common sergeant or another, and defaults in appearance he shall pay 40d. per occasion. If any [jurat?] defaults on election day he shall pay 6s.8d, and each other burgess 12d. Each chamberlain who fails to come [when summoned?] during the term of his office [shall pay] 40d. per occasion. Unless they provide a reasonable excuse.
• Community taxations that are granted from year to year are to be assessed in the first quarter of the year and collected during the second quarter.