Particular Saltash interest. Volumes bound in one. Original ...
Particular Saltash interest. Volumes bound in one. Original binding relaid. 'The Case of the Borough of Saltash, in the County of Cornwall'. Saltash was a ‘’Rotten Borough’’ in Cornwall, which returned two members of parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British parliament from 1552 to 1832 When it was abolished by the Great Reform Act. Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the tudor period, it wad a rotten borough from the start. Saltast was a Burgage Borough, meaning that the right to vote rested with the tenants of certain specified properties. For a long period in the 18th century there was a contest for control of the borough between the Government and the Buller family of Morval (some 14 miles away). Depending partly on legal uncertainities over the precise number and identity of the burgage properties, to which vote were attached. In the 1760’s it was considered an entirely secure Admiralty Borough, where the naval influence could sway all the voters, but by 1831 the Bullers owned all the tenancies and considered them the patrons. This is a faithfull copy by John Kipling ,1785, Clerk of the Rolls. 159 pages plus title page, with fold out tables, copy of poll for 1713 and instructions for a poll att an eleconn for 2 members to serve in next parliament. Saltash 13th Aprill 1722. Samuel Carpenter Esq of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. 'A Statement of the Evidence and Arguments of Counsel Before the Committee of the House of Commons Upon the Controverted Election for Saltash. Together with a Few Annotations,' first edition, 1808, printed by Luke Hansford & Sons, London and published by W. Reed, Law Bookseller, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, London. ‘’The final object of the enquiry in this case was to ascertain in whom the elective franchise was vested…. at the time Saltash was first represented in parliament’’ : P. VII.. from elizabeth 1st to the very late 18th century, 231 pages, with the stamp and bookplate of The Birmingham Law Society, original morocco boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and gilt motif of the society on the back cover, with a little foxing (given the age not surprising), overall a very good copy.
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Particular Saltash interest. Volumes bound in one. Original binding relaid. 'The Case of the Borough of Saltash, in the County of Cornwall'. Saltash was a ‘’Rotten Borough’’ in Cornwall, which returned two members of parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British parliament from 1552 to 1832 When it was abolished by the Great Reform Act. Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the tudor period, it wad a rotten borough from the start. Saltast was a Burgage Borough, meaning that the right to vote rested with the tenants of certain specified properties. For a long period in the 18th century there was a contest for control of the borough between the Government and the Buller family of Morval (some 14 miles away). Depending partly on legal uncertainities over the precise number and identity of the burgage properties, to which vote were attached. In the 1760’s it was considered an entirely secure Admiralty Borough, where the naval influence could sway all the voters, but by 1831 the Bullers owned all the tenancies and considered them the patrons. This is a faithfull copy by John Kipling ,1785, Clerk of the Rolls. 159 pages plus title page, with fold out tables, copy of poll for 1713 and instructions for a poll att an eleconn for 2 members to serve in next parliament. Saltash 13th Aprill 1722. Samuel Carpenter Esq of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. 'A Statement of the Evidence and Arguments of Counsel Before the Committee of the House of Commons Upon the Controverted Election for Saltash. Together with a Few Annotations,' first edition, 1808, printed by Luke Hansford & Sons, London and published by W. Reed, Law Bookseller, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar, London. ‘’The final object of the enquiry in this case was to ascertain in whom the elective franchise was vested…. at the time Saltash was first represented in parliament’’ : P. VII.. from elizabeth 1st to the very late 18th century, 231 pages, with the stamp and bookplate of The Birmingham Law Society, original morocco boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and gilt motif of the society on the back cover, with a little foxing (given the age not surprising), overall a very good copy.
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