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A History of the County of Essex
… Sir Winston Churchill (18741965) represented Woodford in Parliament from 1924 to 1964. In 1959 a bronze statue of him …
A History of the County of Essex
… to William Hunt in 1727, after obtaining a private Act of Parliament. 42 The hall remained in that family until about …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… whilst translating Bothius: Ethelred held a council or parliament here, and made several of the statutes enumerated … was always privileged to send two representatives to parliament, though the right was only exercised without …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… remains. The common fields were enclosed by Act of Parliament of 1777 (NRO, map of 1778). Nothing is known of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… corporation was exempted from sending representatives to parliament, a privilege willingly eschewed from the mid 16th … property owner. 19 In 1642 he was reprimanded by parliament for his zeal in the royalist cause and by December … 42 Many later recorders represented the borough in parliament, including the distinguished parliamentarians Sir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… representation Woodstock sent two representatives to parliament in 1302 and two others in 1305; 86 all seem to … of the death of a sitting member, 90 and the rejection by parliament of the freemen's choice when there was a double … 91 In the early 18th century, however, it was alleged that parliament in 1640 had decided that the franchise lay with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… annually chosen under the provisions of an act of parliament passed in the 47th of George III.; it is lighted with gas by a company established also by act of parliament, and is supplied with water from the works of the … the Bishop of Rochester. The church was rebuilt by act of parliament passed in the 5th of George II., at an expense of …
The Environs of London
… between the years 1733 and 1740, pursuant to an Act of Parliament, by which it was included among the fifty new …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… VI., from which time it regularly returned two members to parliament till it was disfranchised by the act 2nd of …