The towne seales of Waymouth and Melcomb sometimes two seu'll towns was vnited by act of Parliament and made one towne & corporac'on by the name of maior, Aldermen Bayliffes Burgesses and Communaltie of the towne of Waymouth and Melcomb Regis in the countie of Dorset as by the act of Parliament made the 13 yeare of Queene Elizabeth [A.D. 1571] more plainly doth appeare. All which privileges and immunities have been lately 1617 ratified and confirmed by soueraigne Lord King James. And at this present visitac'on 1623 was Henry Waltham Maior, Tho. Gyer, Edw: Rois, Baileiffes, Jo: Bond, John Pitt, Mathew Pitt, Barnard Michell, Tho: Lockell, John Gardiner, David Geere, James James, Rob* Maior, Robt Knight, Mathew Alleyn, Giles Greene, Edw: Hodder, Aldermen, Hugh Pyne, Recorder and John Small, Towne Clarke.