By rights those who listened should have been hustling him to the town magistrates for execution-or doing it themselves.

"Minturnae cannot be held responsible for the actions of a few Minturnaeans," said the senior town magistrate stiffly.

The German surname refers to a town magistrate.

The town magistrates of Ghent visited his workshop in 1425; the city had commissioned two designs for a painting from him.

Esquelbecques and Ledringhem were parts of the same fief, but both villages had their own town magistrates.

In 1837, the town magistrates formed armed patrols to monitor the town at night.

The town magistrates were not about to be caught sleeping a second time.

The town magistrates persuaded him to continue marching, in return for an unspecified payment, and the town was spared.

The Jews finally reached an agreement with the town magistrates under which they were to pay forty gulden annually for the right to slaughter cattle.