A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days: Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria

Name: A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days: Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria
Author: Joseph Grego

Joseph Grego · 1908

The assembling of parliaments--Synopsis of parliamentary history--Orders for the attendance of members--Qualifications for the franchise: burgesses, burgage-tenures, scot and lot, pot-wallopers, faggot-votes, splitting--Disqualifications: alms, charity, “faggots,” “occasionality”--Election of knights of the shire, and burgesses--Outlines of an election in the Middle Ages--Queen Elizabeth and her faithful Commons--An early instance of buying a seat in the Commons--Returns vested in the municipal corporations; “Money makes the mayor to go”--Privileges of parliament--“Knights girt with a sword”--Inferior standing of the citizens and burgesses sent to Parliament--Reluctance of early constituenci…

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