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County Corporate. To certaincities and towns the sovereigns of England have, out of special grace and favour, granted the privilege to be counties of themselves, and not to be comprised in any other county, but to be governed by their own sheriffs and other magistrate, so that no officers of the county at large have any power to intermeddle therein. Twelve cities and five towns are counties of themselves, and have, consequently, their ownsheriffs. Thecities are London, Chester, Bristol, Coventry, Canterbury, Exeter, Gloucester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Norwich, Worcester, York. The towns are Kingston-upon-Hull, Nottingham, New-castle-upon-Tyne, Poole, Southampton