[1]: 21 The office was abolished with the implementation of the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, after which the most senior civic office in Ipswich was Mayor.
They were also joint trustees of several charities which in the early nineteenth century yielded about £2,000 a year.
[3] The charter to incorporate the Borough of Ipswich was granted on 25 May 1200.
[4] The whole community of the town gathered in the churchyard of St Mary-le-Tower where they elected John fitz Norman and William de Beaumes as the two bailiffs.
They were also elected as two of four the coroners alongside Philip de Porta, and Roger Lew.