persons whose names shall appear in the roll or court-call of the manor of Aldborough, as "tenants of Burgage Houses, or the sites of " of Burgage Houses, in Boroughbridge, and shall "have been duly admitted thereon according to the "custom of the manor, being resident within the "said Borough." That the said statements, with the said resolutions and determinations of the said Committee, were afterwards, to wit, on the 7th day of June 1820, reported by the said Committee to the House, together with their final determination on the merits of the said petitions, and thereupon the said report was entered on the Journals of the said House. That your petitioners are not satisfied with the said resolutious and determinations of the said Select Committee, and are açvised that the same are contrary to law, and are desirous of being admitted parties to oppose the said right of election, so resolved and determined, by the said Committee, to be the right of election for the said Borough, as aforesaid, and to support and establish the said right of election for which the said Richard Spooner and Marmaduke Lawson contended before the said Select Committee, and which was negatived by the said Select Committee, and such other right as shall be consistent with law, and to have the benefit of the Statues in that behalf made and provided. The petitioners. pray that they may be admitted as parties to oppose the said right of election which has been resolved and determined by the said. Committee to be the right of election for the said Borough, and to support and establish the said right of election for which the said Richard Spooner and Marmaduke Lawson contended before the said Select Committee, or such other right as shall be consistent with law. Ido hereby give notice, that the House have appointed Tuesday the 15th day of May next, at

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Three of the Clock in the Afternoon, to take the said petition into consideration.

Given under my hand, the 21st day of February 1821.

CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Speaker.

Borough of Petersfield.-Right of Election Petition, Notice.

Martis, 20° die Februarij 1821.

Several persons whose names are thereunto subscribed on behalf of themselves and others, being legal electors and persons claiming to have a right to vote as legal electors of Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Petersfield, in the County of Southampton, having this day presented their petition to the House of Commons, setting forth that on the 16th day of June 1820, the Select Committee appointed to try and determine the petition of Nathaniel Atcheson, Esq. and John Camac, Esq., a Lieutenant Colonel of His Majesty's first regiment of Life Guards, and of the several persons whose names were thereunto respectively signed; and also the petition of Henry Williams Lovett, of Gray's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Esq., and of Robort Shank Atcheson, of DukeStreet, in the City of Westminster, Esq., complaining of an undue election and return for the said Borough, reported to the House, That it appeared to the Commirtee that the merits of the petitions did in part depend upon the right of election, and therefore the Committee required the counsel on both sides to deliver to the clerk of the Committee, statements in writing of the right of election for which they respectively contended: That in consequence

quence thereof the counsel for the said several petitioners delivered in a statement as follows: "That "the right of voting is in the Burgesses (being "the inhabitant householders paying scot and lot) "and in the freeholders of lands in general, and in "freeholders of antient dwelling-houses or sham"bles, or dwelling-houses or shambles built upon "antient foundations within the Borough of. "Petersfield, in the County of Southampton, nor "restricted to houses or shambles of burgage "tenure," That the counsel for the sitting members delivered in a statement as follows: "That the right of election of Burgesses to serve "in Parliament for the Borough of Petersfield, in "the County of Southampton, is in the freeholders: "of lands or ancient dwelling-houses or shambles, : "or dwelling-houses or shambles built upon ancient, "foundations within the said Borough, such lands "and dwelling-houses being entire and undivided "tenements and freeholds of the nature of burgage "tenure," That upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the petitioners the Committee have determined, that the right of election as set forth in the said statement is not the right of election for the said Borough, That upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the sitting members, the Committee have determined that the right of election as set forth in the said statement is not the right of election for the said Borough. That the Committee have determined that the right of election of Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the said. Borough, is in the freeholders of lands or ancient dwelling-houses or shambles, or dwelling-houses or shambles built upon ancient foundations within the said Borough, such lands and dwelling-houses being entire ancient tenements. That your petitioners are advised that the right of election so determined by the said Select Committee, is not the ancient and true and legal right of election for the said Borough,

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and are therefore not satisfied with the said determination of the said Committee, and are desirous of being admitted parties to oppose the said right of election and to have the benefit of the statutes, in that case made and provided; therefore to prevent the judghitht of the said Select Committee, from becoming final and conclusive pray that they may be admitted parties according to the form of the statute; in that case made and provided to oppose the right of election as determined and reported by the said Select Committée, and that they may have such other relief in the premises as to the House shall seem meet, and the nature of the case may require do hereby give notice, that the House Have appointed Tuesday the 22d day of May next, at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon to take the sard petion into consideration.

Given under my hand the 20th day of February 1821.

CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Speaker.

City of Limerick.-Right of Election Petition," Notice.

Jovis, 220 die Februarij 1821.

Sir William Stamer, Baronét, and others, electors for the City and County of the City of Limerick, having this day presented their petition to the House of Commons, setting forth, That at the late election for the City and County of the City of Limerick, the Honourable J P. Vereker and Thomas Spring Rice, Esq were candidates for the representation of the said City in Parliament, and on the 7th day of April 1820, the Sheriffs for the said City made their return, and thereby declared that the said J. P. Vereker had a majority of twe

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hundred and thirty-seven votes, and was duly elected. That the said Thomas Spring Rice petitioned against the said return, and that the Select Committee appointed to try the merits of the said election, required the said parties to deliver in statements of the rights of election for which they respectively contended, and that the said Thomas Spring Rice accordingly delivered in a statement whereby he insisted, "That the right of election for the said City of Limerick, and for the County "of the said City, is in the freeholder of the County of the said City of Limerick, and in such "freemon thereof as had served apprenticeships in "the said City, or as were resident therein at the "time of their respective admissions to the freedom "thereof; and also that the eldest sons of freemen,

and persons marrying the daughters of freemen, "and persons who had served regular apprenticeships within the said City, to freemen thereof, 44 were, of right, entitled to the freedom of the said City, and to vote at elections therein; and "that all merchants, traders, artificers, artisans, seamen, or persons otherwise skilled and exer"cised in any mystery, craft or trade, or in the working or making any manufacture, or in the "art of navigation, residing, inhabiting and ex

ercising their trade, mystery or craft within the "said City, were of right entitled under the sta«tutes and rules relating to the said City, to the "freedom thereof, and to vote at elections for the

same during such their residence therein; and also that no persons howsoever, in any respect "entitled, except such has had been residing and continually inhabiting within the said City at the "time of their admission to the freedom thereof, or had been apprentices therein, were entitled to vote at elections for the said City." And your petitioners shew that the said J. P. Vereker delivered in a statement to the said Committee,

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