An Historical Account of the Rights of Election of the Several Counties, Cities and Boroughs of Great Britain ... Together with Abstracts of the Proceedings Relative to Controverted Elections, Under Every Place, and All the New Writs Issued on Seats Being Vacated by Death, Expulsion, Accepting of Places, of Preferment, Or Being Called Up to the House of Peers, from I Ed. 6, to the Dissolution of the Parliament in the Year 1780: To which is Prefixed, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Election to Parliament and the Right of the Commons to a Share in the Legislature. Also, the Number of Members Returned in the Reigns of ... Edward I, Henry VI, Henry VII, &c. and the Names of the Places that Have Long Discontinued to Send Representatives and Have Not Had that Privilege Restored. The Whole Extracted from the Best Collections of Records and Histories and the Journals of ParliamentG. Robinson, J. Robson, and J. Sewell, 1783 - 686 pages |
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Page 478 - Refolved, that no Mayor can duly return himfelf a Burgefs to ferve in Parliament, for the fame Borough of which he is Mayor at the Time of the Election ; Refolved, that no Mayor, Bailiff, or other Officer of a Borough; who is the proper Officer to
Page 82 - Refolved, that in the laft Determination of this Houfe, of the Right of Election of Members to ferve in Parliament for the Borough of Bridport, in the County of Dorfet, made the
Page 68 - a Sum not exceeding Two Millions, upon a Fund for Payment of Annuities, after the rate of Eight Pounds per centum per Annum,
Page 231 - of any Lands or Tenements, which are or have been Parcel of the Wafte Ground of the faid Borough and Manor, or any Mefluages or Buildings, which are, or (hall be
Page 243 - in the Inhabitants, not receiving Alms, and in fuch Freemen only, as, at the time of their being made free, were Inhabitants of the faid Borough, or the
Page 148 - to one and the fame Trade, in 'the faid City, or the Suburbs thereof, and do not receive Alms or weekly Charity; fuch Freemen being duly fworn and enrolled;
Page 277 - to be in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Freemen, being Inhabitants at the Time they were made free, and not receiving Pay of the
Page 3 - is a Member of the great Council of the Kingdom, maintained at the Charge of the Borough ; and if fuch a Neglect may be permitted in one Borough, fo
Page 205 - Governor of Placentia in Newfoundland, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of Nova Scotia, or
Page 491 - Occupation or in the Receipt of the Rents and Profits of fuch Lands or Tenements, for the Space of one whole Year next before the