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Excerpt from Stockdale's Parliamentary Guide, or Members' and Electors' Complete Companion: Being an Historical Account of the Several Cities, Counties, and Boroughs, in Great-Britain The original method of election for cities and bo roughs was either in the commonalty at large, or re. {trained to particular bodies of men within the fame, who contributed to the charge and where the boroughs were of the king's demefnes, all luch as were the king's tenants, or paid the king any acknowledge ments, were 'the eleflorr; and where a dil'tri& was made a bororrgh, generally the inhabitants at large were liable to the charge, and in them was veiled the power of election. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.