STOCK DALE's

Parliamentary Guide;

o R,

MEMBERS' AND ELECTORS'

COMPLETE COMPANION.

PUBLIC
LIBRARY

Parliamentary Guide;

OR,

MEMBERS' AND ELECTORS'

COMPLETE COMPANION:

Being an HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the, feveral CITIES,
COUNTIES, and BOROUGHS, in GREAT-BRITAIN, their
Right of Election; when they were first represented in Parliament,
and the Number of Voters at each Place; with References to the
Journals of the House of Commons, for every Proceeding to be
found in them, relating to Matters of Election; and Copies of the
feveral Writs used at a General Re-election, the Oaths taken by
the Electors and the Elected, and the Oaths administered to the
Reprefentative upon taking his Seat; with a full Recitation of all
the various Statutes relating to the Election of Members, and the
Succeffion of Parliaments from the Restoration.

To which is prefixed,

A PRE

FACE,

Digested under the feven following Heads, viz.

The Origin of Parliament, its Progrefs, and Prefent State-Obferva-

tions on the laft General Writ-Original Mode of Election-How

the Rights of Election have been preferved-Of the Conftitution

of Committees for trying controverted Elections; the Manner of

proceeding in them, and Regulations concerning the fame-The

Number of Members returned in the different Reigns-and Ob-

fervations on the present Work.

AN

WITH:

APPENDIX,

Containing Orders of the House of Commons, arranged under their

proper Heads; and a Table of Fees taken by its Officers and

Servants.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE,

OPPOSITE BURLINGTON-HOUSE, PICCADILLY.