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Their office is to elect the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, bridge-master, and auditors of the City and Bridge-house accounts, and the four ale-conners.
The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges William Ferneley Allen
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Here and there a tip to a bridge-master (a gulden stuck conspicuously in my eye, like a silver monocle, just long enough to suggest a different destination) worked wonders, and in an hour I had piloted "Lorelei" through the water-streets of Gouda, ready to take her passengers again on the Leiden side.
The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Karl Anderson 1901
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A bridge-master was one of the officials of the corporation, according to the charter granted to the town by James II.
Vanishing England 1892
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