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Journal of the House of Commons
… be Evidence against the Defendants, except such as receive Alms, Pensions, or Gift, out of the publick Monies of the …
Journal of the House of Commons
… That they maintain, out of the said Monies, Fifty-seven Alms-houses, which are paid monthly; and is from Eleven …
Journal of the House of Commons
… of the Nine that claimed to be Borough-holders received Alms, and the others were very poor. That as to the Merits of …
Journal of the House of Commons
… the Return; but said, None were set by, but who received Alms. Mr. Herring said, He was an Inhabitant: And that Mr. … that all Persons, being Inhabitants, who did not receive Alms, had a Right to vote: That he remembers one ancient … Forty Shillings a Year for his House, and did not receive Alms: That the Mint was always reckoned Part of the Borough, …
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… several Persons, and brought several out of Prisons and Alms-houses to give their Votes for him; many of them …
Journal of the House of Commons
… to the Poll: But these 37 were such as did not receive Alms, nor pay to the Church and Poor. That it was proved, by …
Journal of the House of Commons
… in Great Marlow in the County of Bucks, not receiving Alms: That the Sitting Member insisting, the Right was only … been by the Inhabitants being Housholders, not receiving Alms, except one Election Anno 1680, by Scot and Lot Men …
Journal of the House of Commons
… to be duly elected, although most of his Voters took Alms, and paid to neither Church or Poor; and therefore have …
Journal of the House of Commons
… 2. That there be excepted such Persons as shall receive Alms of the Parish where they dwell, and the Children being …
Journal of the House of Commons
… newly married, yet voted; but says, he never received Alms: And that it continued so till King James the Second his … and Poor: And that he has known those that have lived in Alms-houses, and received Alms, polled; but could name none such. Thomas Wilkey said, …