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Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1727 42 and the dangerous waters off Awre Point made it a franchise that they could often exercise. View of frankpledge …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… at the court leet of the lord of the manor. The elective franchise was conferrred also in 1554, and notwithstanding …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… district, formerly called Bambroughshire, was a separate franchise, in the possession of various privileges, now …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… over the registration-district of Banbury. The elective franchise was granted in the reign of Mary, from which period …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 14 The Whigs made unsuccessful attempts to widen the franchise, which at that time, and probably from the … but with the loss of the council's exclusive right to the franchise a number of non-residents resigned. Of the … something more' 78 on issues such as the extension of the franchise he sided with the government on the new Poor Law …