Transcribed by Susan D. Young.

Sources:
1.  Reprints of "Gleanings of the Municipal Records of Folkestone", as reported in various issues of Folkestone Express, Sandgate, Shorncliffe & Hythe Advertiser.
2.  Burials found in the Folkestone Composite Registers, 1635-1846.

The title and role of jurat was permanently abolished across England by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835. At that point, Folkestone's traditional governance of 12 jurats was replaced by a modern town council consisting of an elected mayor, aldermen, and councillors.  Jurats and commoners served life terms. Vacancies only opened when a jurat died, at which point a new member was elected by a majority vote of the corporation from the existing pool of commoners.  Because Folkestone was a "Corporate Limb" of the Cinque Port of Dover, these jurats held significant administrative, civic, and judicial power.

The list of Jurats here does not contain all of the jurats that ever served as such for Folkestone.  Only the dates that ARE NOT shown as "Ca" are dates of the election of that individual.  The dates preceded by "Ca" were drawn from an entry found in the Composite Register for the burial of the wife or a child of the individual named.  

DATE	SURNAME	GIVEN NAME	NOTES
	...........	Richard	died 23 Nov 1572, age 70
Ca 1810	ANDREWS	Edward
	BAKER	Edmund	Buried 28 Mar 1680
	BAKER	John	Buried 25 Oct 1767
	BAKER	Leonard	Buried 28 Mar 1588
1539	BAKER	Thomas
Ca 1755	BAKER	Thomas, the elder	Buried 5 Sep 1756
	BAKER	Thomas	Buried 14 Mar 1775
	BAKER	Thomas	Buried 9 Apr 1840, aged 89, the senior member of the old Corporation and 11 times Mayor
	BAYLY	Thomas	Buried 16 Apr 1715
1655	CHAPMAN	Stephen
1634	CULVERDEN	Robert
	EVERENDEN	Thomas	Buried 11 Nov 1737
	FAGGE	Thomas	buried 11 Dec 1672
	FAGGE	Thomas	died 29 June 1701, age 50
	GILL	John	Buried 25 Mar 1844, aged 85, the oldest member of the old Corporation
1634	GODDEN	Daniel	Buried 23 Jun 1637
1634	GODDEN	Samuel
	HAMMOND	Edward	Buried 1 Dec 1741
	HAMMOND	Robert	Buried 15 Mar 1720/21
	HART	Richard	Buried 27 Jun 1834, aged 66
1794	HARVEY	John
1599	HARVEY	Thomas
	HOGBEN	William	d 14 Sept 1628, age 49
1634	INMITH	Thomas	Buried 20 Feb 1657/58
	JACOB	Miles	died 1693
1569	JACOB	William
	JENKIN	Thomas	Buried 30 Jan 1699/1700
1591	JENKIN	William
	JORDAN	Henry	Buried 30 Jun 1762
1694	JORDAN	John
	JORDAN	John, Sr.	Buried 28 May 1733
	JORDAN	John	Buried 11 Apr 1762, aged 33
	JORDAN	John	Buried 1 Feb 1780
	KENNETT	Henry	buried 28 Jun 1642
Ca 1593	KENNETT	John
	LADD	Gibbon	Buried 2 Aug 1718
	MASTER	Benjamin	buried 9 Jan 1642/3
	MASTER	Benjamin	Buried 6 Feb 1718/19
Ca 1644	MASTER	William
Ca 1650	MEDGETT	John	Buried 13 Jul 1663
	MINTER	Michael	Buried 16 Nov 1749
1599	PHILPOTT	Henry
1605	PHILPOTT	Thomas
	POPE	William	Buried 3 Mar 1767
Ca 1676	PRAGELL	Clement
	READE	Matthew
1599	READE	William
	SLADEN	Joseph	Buried 4 Jan 1828, the senior Jurat, age 91
	STILES	James	Buried 15 Sep 1655
1546	UDEN	John
	WARDE	John
	WATSON	Henry	Buried 1 Jul 1729. died June 28 1729. Aged 42 Years
	WATSON	John	Buried 16 Jan 1728//29
	WATSON	John	Buried 7 Feb 1754
	WEST	William	Buried 12 Jul 1761
1655	WINTER	Israel	Buried 21 Nov 1658
	WRAIGHT	Jacob	Buried 6 Mar 1740/41