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<HEAD>Droytwich CASE.</HEAD>
<P>KING <HI>John</HI> Granted to the Burge&s;&s;es of <HI>Droytwich</HI> and their Heirs, the Salt Springs there, rendring the yearly Fee Farm Rent of 100 <HI>l. Sterling,</HI> and the Salt Water hath ever &s;ince been divided into Four Hundred and Four Shares called <HI>Bulleries.</HI></P>
<P>The Grantees of King <HI>John</HI> and their Heirs have aliened and &s;old their whole inheritance in the Salt Springs to &s;everal per&s;ons, who at this day &s;tand &s;eized in Fee of the &s;ame, and pay the Fee Farm Rent according to their re&s;pective Shares, and from the time of King <HI>John's</HI> Grant, to the Reign of Queen <HI>Mary</HI> the Inheritors of the Salt Springs govern'd the &s;ame, and were deemed Burge&s;&s;es of <HI>Droytwich,</HI> and whoever &s;old his Inheritance, cea&s;ed to be a Bur|ge&s;s.</P>
<P>Queen <HI>Mary</HI> Incorporated the Burrough of <HI>Droytwich,</HI> by the Name of Bailiffs and Burge&s;&s;es, but takes no notice of the Salt Works, nor is there any Order, or Direction given by King <HI>John</HI>'s Grant, or any &s;ub&s;equent Charter for the Governing, or Managing thereof.</P>
<P>There are but Nine Per&s;ons who inhabit within the Burrough of <HI>Droytwich,</HI> who with the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of thirteen others, they have admitted into the Corporation, pretend to the Power of Governing, Managing, and taxing the Inheritance in the Salt Springs at plea&s;ure; exclud|ing the real Owners thereof from Voting, or Acting therein.</P>
<P>And altho the Proprietors of the Salt Springs are undoubtedly Burge&s;&s;es of <HI>Droytwich,</HI> and con&s;equently Members of the Corporation; yet by this Bill they do not &s;eek any relief there|in, but only that they may have a Vote in the Managing and Taxing of their own E&s;tates.</P>
<P>It is alledged the pre&s;ent Members of the Corporation of <HI>Drotwich</HI> have 150 Shares in the Salt Springs.</P>
<P>Note, The Per&s;ons following are Mem|bers of the Corporation, and have a Hundred and Twenty of the Hun|dred and Fifty, and are for pa&s;&s;ing the Bill.</P>
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<ITEM>Earl of <HI>Shrewsbury.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord <HI>Coventry.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>John Pakington.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Walter Blount.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Thomas Cookes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>John Talbot.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Harry Conningsby.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edmund Wyld,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Winford,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Steynor,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Newport,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Lench,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Thomas Ra&s;tel.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mr. <HI>Jo&s; Butler.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>The Per&s;ons who Oppo&s;e pa&s;&s;ing the Bill are Twenty two, of which number Twelve have only the bare Qualification of a Pepper-corn; and the other Ten have 22 Shares and a half in the Salt Springs and no more.</P>
<P>The Remainder of the 404 Shares are given to Charitable U&s;es, or ve&s;ted in Widows and Infants, or per&s;ons who live far remote.</P>
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<CELL ROLE="label"><HI>Shares.</HI></CELL>
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<CELL>The Per&s;ons above Named have</CELL>
<CELL>120</CELL>
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<CELL>The Per&s;ons who are excluded from Ordering and Managing their own E&s;tates have</CELL>
<CELL>174</CELL>
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<CELL>The Per&s;ons for the Bill have</CELL>
<CELL>294</CELL>
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<CELL>The Per&s;ons who oppo&s;e the Bill</CELL>
<CELL>22 and a half.</CELL>
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