The poll of the freeholders of Warwickshire, at the election at Warwick, on the 31st October [&c.] To which is added, the arguments of counsel, and the evidence adduced before the committee of the House of commons for and against the petition of the Coventry freeholders1821 |
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30th of Henry Act of Parliament aforesaid Ainsty Alcester Allesley assessed Aston Bailiffs Benjamin ditto Birmingham ditto ditto borough Bulkington Burgesses Charles ditto city of Coventry city of Glocester city of York Committee Corporation county at large county of Durham county of Glocester county of Warwick county of York county rate Craike ditto ditto ditto ditto Smith Edward ditto elective franchise entry evidence exercised freeholders freemen George ditto Glocester granted HARRISON Henry ditto Henry VI House of Commons instances James ditto John ditto Joseph ditto Kenilworth Land Tax Law Spoo Learned Friend letters patent Mayor Names of Voters Norton Pailton parcel parent county persons petitioners Place of Abode present privileges purposes reign reservation Richard ditto right of election right of voting Robert ditto Samuel ditto Sheriff Shire Smith Thomas Solihull Spooner Statute Sutton Coldfield Tamworth TAUNTON Thomas ditto town of Coventry usage Warwickshire William ditto
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Page 127 - ... burgess there for the said county palatine ; the said inhabitants, for lack thereof, have been oftentimes touched and grieved with acts and statutes made within the said court, as well derogatory unto the most ancient jurisdictions, liberties and privileges of your said county palatine, as prejudicial unto the commonwealth, quietness, rest, and peace of your grace's most bounden subjects inhabiting within the same.
Page 77 - ... whereby manslaughters, riots, batteries, and divisions among the gentlemen, and other people of the same counties, shall very likely rise and be, unless due remedy be provided in this behalf,
Page 76 - County to be holden after the delivery of the writ of the Parliament, proclamation shall be made in the full County of the day and place of the Parliament, and that all they that be there present, as well suitors duly summoned for the same cause as...
Page 127 - And forasmuch as the said inhabitants have always hitherto been bound by the acts and statutes made and ordained by your said Highness, and your most noble progenitors, by authority of the said court, as far forth as other counties, cities, and boroughs have been, that have had their knights and burgesses within your said court of parliament...
Page 77 - England, of the which most part was of people of small substance and of no value, whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires dwelling within the same counties, whereby manslaughters, riots, batteries, and divisions among the gentlemen and other people of the same counties, shall very likely -rise and be, unless convenient and due remedy be provided in this behalf...
Page 50 - Successors, graunted, ordained, and established, and in and by these Presents, Do for Us, our Heirs and Successors, grant...
Page 127 - Chester is and hath been always hitherto exempt, excluded, and separated out and from your high court of Parliament, to have any knights and burgesses within the said court; by reason whereof the said inhabitants have hitherto sustained manifold disherisons, losses, and damages, as well in their lands, goods, and bodies, as in the good, civil, and politic governance and maintenance of the Commonwealth of their said country.
Page 58 - In such freemen as have served seven years' apprenticeship to one and the same trade in the city or suburbs, and do not receive alms or weekly charity, such freemen being duly sworn and enrolled ; 20th November, 1722 — 2,400.
Page 77 - ... that the knights of the shires to be chosen within the same realm of England to come to the parliaments of our lord the King, hereafter to be holden, shall be chosen in every county of the realm of England, by people dwelling and resident in the same counties, whereof every one of them shall have free land or tenement to the value of 40*. by the year at the least, above all charges...
Page 77 - England, have now of late been made by very great, outrageous, and excessive number of people dwelling within the same counties of the realm of England, of the which most part was of people of small substance, and of no value, whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires, dwelling within the same counties...