of and have a freehold eftate, confifting of [Specifying the nature of fuch freehold eftate, whether meffuage, land, rent, tithe, or what else; and if fuch freebold eftate confifts in meffuages, lands, or tithes, then Specifying in whofe occupation the fame are; and if in rents, then specifying the names of the owners or poffeffors of the lands or tenements out of which fuch rent is iffuing, or of some or, one of them] lying or being at in the county of of the clear yearly value of forty fhillings, over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the fame; and that you have been in the actual poffeffion or receipt of the rents and profits thereof, for your own ufe, above twelve calendar months, or that the fame came to you within the time aforefaid, by defcent, marriage, marriage-fettlement, devife, or promotion to a benefice in a church, or by promotion to an office; and that fuch freehold eftate has not been granted or made to you fraudulently, on purpose to qualify you to give your vote; and that the place of your abode is at in and that you are twenty-one years of age, as you believe; and that you have not been polled before at this election. No. XXIV. The Freeholder's Oath for Cities and Towns, appointed by 19 G. 2. c. 28. S. 1. YOU fhall fwear [or, being a Quaker, you fball folemnly affirm], That you have a freehold eftate, confifting of yearly value of forty fhillings, over and above is at in No. XXV. Oath to be taken by a Voter previous to polling, if required by any Candidate or any Voter in any Borough or City. IDO fwear [or, being a Quaker, do affirm], That my name is A. B.; and that I am [Specifying the addition, profeffion, or trade of fuch perfon]; and that the place of my abode is at in the county of [and if it is a town confifting of more streets than one, specifying what street]; and that I have not before polled at this election; and that I verily believe myself to be of the full age of twenty-one years. No. XXVI. Writ for new Election of one Citizen for the City of Westminster. GEORGE the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.-To our fheriff of the county of M. greeting. Whereas, Sir P. W. Knight of the most honourable Order of the Bath, was lately chofen one of the citizens for the city of W. in your county, for our prefent Parliament, fummoned to be holden at our city of W. the day of of in the year of our reign, and from thence by our several writs prorogued to and until the day of in the fame year, on which day our faid Parliament was begun and held, and from thence by feveral adjournments and prorogations was adjourned and prorogued day of unto the and there now holden: And whereas the faid Sir P. W. being fo chofen a citizen for the faid city as aforefaid, is fince dead, as, by a letter of our right trufty and well-beloved counsellor, Sir -, Speaker of our Lower House of Parliament, more fully and plainly appears; by means whereof our fubjects of the faid city are deprived of one citizen to treat for the benefit of the fame city in our faid Parliament: Nevertheless, We being unwilling that the commonalty of our kingdom in our faid Parliament affembled, to treat of business concerning Us, the state and defence of our kingdom and the Church, from the aforefaid caufe fhould be diminished or leffened, whereby thofe affairs may not have a due end, We command you, that, in the place of Sir P. W. within the city aforefaid, one other fit and difcreet citizen of the aforefaid city (proclamation being first made of the premises, and of the day and place), freely and indifferently, by thofe who fhall be prefent at the proclamation, according to the form of the ftatute in that cafe made and provided, you cause to be elected; and the name of fuch citizen (whether, at the said election, he shall be prefent or abfent) to be inserted in certain indentures to be thereupon made between you and them, who fhall be prefent at [H] 3 fuch fuch election, and to cause him to come to the faid Parliament; fo that the fame citizen, fo to be elected, may have full power and fufficient authority, for himself and the commonalty of the aforefaid city, to do and confent to thofe things which in our Parliament aforefaid, by the common council of our realm (by the bleffings of God), fhall happen to be ordained upon the aforefaid affairs: Willing, nevertheless, that neither you nor any other fheriff in this our kingdom in anywife be elected; and the election fo made, diftinctly and openly, under your feal, and the feals of them who fhall be prefent at fuch election, certify unto us in our Chancery forthwith, remitting to us one part of the aforefaid indentures annexed to these presents, together with this writ. Witnefs ourself at Weftminfter, the day of in Yorke and Yorke, Wrote upon the label to the faid writ as following, viz. To the fheriff of the county of M.-A writ for a new election of one citizen for thẹ city of W. Yorke and Yorke. The execution of this writ appears in certain schedules hereunto annexed. |