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<HEAD>The CASE of RICHARD HUTCHINSON, <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> AGAINST Sir ELIAB HARVEY, <HI>Return'd to Serve as Burge&s;s for</HI> Malden, <HI>in the County of</HI> E&s;&s;ex, <HI>in the Place of Sir</HI> Thomas Darcy, <HI>Decea&s;ed.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Appointed to be Heard on <DATE>the 10th Day of <HI>January.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<P>SIR <HI>Eliab,</HI> according to the Poll declared by the Bayliffs of the Town, had Voices 159</P>
<P><HI>Richard Hutchin&s;on,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> 127</P>
<P>Of the&s;e, Sir <HI>Eliab</HI> had Free-Men made contrary to a Known, Unrepealed By-Law 73</P>
<P>The afore&s;aid <HI>Richard Hutchin&s;on</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> of &s;uch Men, only 2</P>
<P>So that Sir <HI>Eliab</HI> had, Legal Voices, but 86</P>
<P>And the &s;aid <HI>Richard Hutchin&s;on,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> 125</P>
<P>According to which, the above&s;aid <HI>Richard Hutchin&s;on</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> had a True Majority of 39</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, Sir <HI>Eliab</HI> had Minors 3</P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>Richard Hutchin&s;on</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> had al&s;o a greater Majority than as afore&s;aid, if the 16 Clergy-Men who Voted for Sir <HI>Eliab,</HI> and the other Free-Men made on purpo&s;e to Vote for him, &s;ince the Death of Sir <HI>Thomas Darcy,</HI> (Some of which were made &s;ince the Delivery of the Precepts) were &s;et a&s;ide.</P>
<P>However, The Foul and Partial Practices of the Bayliffs, in Giving Honorary Freedoms to them that would promi&s;e to Vote for Sir <HI>Eliab,</HI> and denying Freedoms to them who had Right to be Made Free, unle&s;s they would make &s;uch Promi&s;e; And in delaying the Election for near a Month, at Sir <HI>Eliab</HI>'s De&s;ire, in &s;uffering him to appoint the Hour of Proceeding to a Choice, and to govern the Court at the Poll, which was called over according to a Li&s;t contrived to &s;erve him, in Over-ruling all Ju&s;t Exceptions, and ab&s;olutely denying a Scrutiny, though demanded, and in&s;i&s;ted on: Together with the Bribery, Me|naces and Force u&s;ed on that Side, it is conceiv'd, will be &s;uf|ficient to make void Sir <HI>Eliab</HI>'s Election, if the afore&s;aid <HI>Richard Hutchin&s;on,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> had not a True Majority, as above.</P>
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