 | Thornhagh Gurdon - Courts baron and courts leet - 1731 - 434 pages
...Abbots, Priors, Earls and great Barons particularly, and to the Sheriffs of the feveral Counties to return two Knights for each County, two Citizens for each City, and two Burgefles for each Borough. And this was the firft Parliament of Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Knights,... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 706 pages
...earls, and great barons particularly, and ami commons. to the (heriffs of the feveral counties, to return two knights for each county, two citizens for each city, and two burgefles for each borough. And this was the full parliament of lords fpiritual and temporal, knights,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 748 pages
...parliament, and by his writs for that purpose to order the conservators to return four, some say only two knights for each county, two citizens for each city, and two burgesses for each borough ; and as these writs were ordered and directed by the barons, it is probable that all... | |
 | Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield - Administrative and political divisions - 1816 - 544 pages
...Montford, Earl of Leicester, he sent writs to the nobles, and to the sheriffs of the several counties to return two knights for each county, two citizens for each city, and two burgesses for each borough. And in the fiftysecond year of his reign, he confirmed Magna Charta at Marlborougli.... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin - Taunton (England) - 1822 - 640 pages
...writs were accordingly sent to the sheriffs of the several counties of England, to cause to be elected two knights for each county, two citizens for each city, and two burgesses for each borough, to be at the same parliament, on the • Gurdon's Hist, of Parliament, vol. ip 223.—... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1830 - 414 pages
...according to writs still extant, and the earliest of their kind known to us, directing " the sheriffs to elect and return two knights for each county ;...citizens for each city ; and two burgesses for every burgh in the county." If this assembly be supposed to be the same which is vested with the power of... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...according to writs still extant, and the earliest of their kind known to us, directing ' the sheriffs to elect and return two knights for each county, two...citizens for each city, and two burgesses for every burgh in the county. ' If this assembly be supposed to be the same which is vested with the power of... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1836 - 484 pages
...according to writs still extant, and the earliest of their kind known to us, directing " the sheriffs to elect and return two knights for each county; two...citizens for each city ; and two burgesses for every burgh in the county." If this assembly be supposed to be the same which is invested with the power... | |
 | James Savage - 1837 - 282 pages
...writs were accordingly sent to the sheriffs of the several counties of England, to cause to be elected two knights for each county, two citizens for each city, and two burgesses for each borough, to be at the same parliament, on the day appointed, provided with full and sufficient... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 738 pages
...one of the contending parties then in the field, issued writs, directing the election and return of two knights for each county ; two citizens for each...and two burgesses for every borough in the county. The earliest writs to summon the citizens and burgesses were directed, not to the sheriffs, but to... | |
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Leicester in the summons for a parliament at this time directed " the sheriffs to elect and return two knights for each county, two citizens for each city, and two burgesses for each borough in the county... 
