AN

ENTIRE AND COMPLETE

HISTORY,

POLITICAL AND PERSONAL,

OF

The Boroughs

O F

GREAT BRITAIN;

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN ORIGINAL SKETCH

OF

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERION UNTIL THE PRESENT TIME;

AND THE PRINCIPLES OF OUR ANCIENT REPRESENTATION
TRACED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC RECORDS,

SUPPORTED BY UNDENIABLE TESTIMONIES,

AND ILLUSTRATED BY A VARIETY OF NOTES AND REFERENCES, COLLECTED FROM
THE MOST RESPECTABLE, LEGAL, POLITICAL, AND HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES,

IN TWO VOLUMES OCTAVO.

Thomas nenisa Burvicy

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for G. RILEY, Bookfeller, No. 33, Ludgate-Street;
And fold by J. DEBRETT, Piccadilly; Meffrs. EGERTONS, Whitehall;
Meffrs, WHIELDON and BUTTERWORTH, Fleet-Street;
and RICHARDSON, Cornhill.

MDCCXCII.

88114

ASTORUHANOX AND diteet rovnDATIONS. 1808.

Puple 97 - $1.50 3 vol.

CONTENTS

OF

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

ECESSITY, Propriety, and chief Principles of

inquiring into the original State of our Reprefen-

tation

CHAP. II.

PARLIAMENT.-Its Meaning, Power, and Privileges,

with attendant Obfervations

Page t

4

ibid.

7

13

19

CHAP. VII.

Copyholders being deprived of a Right to vote for a

Reprefentative, is a Departure from the Principles

of our ancient and free Conftitution

CHAP. VIII.

Borough Reprefentation

CHAP. IX.

A Summary View of the Government from William

the First until the prefent Period

The Claims of the People of England

Plan of Mr. Glanville Sharp to reform the Represen-

tation of Great Britain

TIBKVBA

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CONTENTS,