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<HEAD>The CASE of Sir <HI>CHARLES PORTER</HI> Knight. <HI>WILLIAM ADDERLEY</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> <HI>Touching their Election for</HI> New Wind&s;or.</HEAD>
<P>SIR <HI>Chri&s;topher Wren,</HI> and <HI>Bapti&s;t May</HI> E&s;quire, were cho&s;en by the Mayor and Select Burge&s;&s;es only, not exceeding Thirty.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Charles Porter,</HI> and <HI>William Adderley</HI> E&s;quire, by the <HI>General Bur|ge&s;&s;es and Inhabitants,</HI> paying Scot and Lot; who doubt not but to prove, that the Right of Election is in the general Burge&s;&s;es, and con&s;e|quently, that they are duly Cho&s;en.</P>
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<ITEM><LABEL>1.</LABEL> From Ancient Returns.</ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>2.</LABEL> From Judgments in Parliament.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Precedents of Returns.</HEAD>
<ITEM><LABEL>25. Hen. 6.</LABEL> Major &amp; <HI>Communitas</HI> Burgen&s;ium Elegerunt, &amp;c. In sujus Te&s;timonium Sigil|lum Commune Omnium &amp; &s;ingulorum Burgen&s;ium, &amp; <HI>Communitatis</HI> praedict' e&s;t appen&s;um. </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>27. Hen. 6.</LABEL> <HI>Return in the &s;ame Words.</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>29. Hen. 6.</LABEL> <HI>Return in the &s;ame Words.</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>39. Hen. 6.</LABEL> Major Ballivi &amp; tota <HI>Communitas</HI> Elegerunt, &amp;c. </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>17. Edw. 4.</LABEL> <HI>Return,</HI> Per Majorem ville five Burgi &s;imul cum Ballivis, Burgen&s;ib' &amp; <HI>Communitate.</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>1. Mary.</LABEL> <HI>Return,</HI> Per Thomam Goade Majorem ville five Burgi de nova Wind&s;or in Com' Berks, &s;imul cum Bugen&s;ib' &amp; <HI>Communitat'</HI> &amp;c. </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>1. &amp; 2. Ph. &amp; Mary.</LABEL> Major &amp; Ballivi &amp; Burgen&s;es &s;imul cum <HI>Communitate</HI> ex Communi a&s;&s;en&s;u Elegerunt, &amp;c. </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>2. &amp; 3. Ph. &amp; Mar.</LABEL> <HI>Return,</HI> Per Majorem &s;imul cum Burgen&s;ib', &amp; <HI>Communitat'!</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>4. &amp; 5. Ph. &amp; Mar.</LABEL> <HI>Return in the &s;ame Words.</HI> </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>1. Eliz.</LABEL> Major &s;imul cum Ballivis Burgen&s;ib' &amp; <HI>Communitate</HI> Elegerunt, &amp;c. </ITEM>
<ITEM><LABEL>16. Car. 1. 17. Car. 1.</LABEL> <HI>Mayor, Bayliffs, Burge&s;&s;es and</HI> Inhabitants, <HI>have Cho&s;en and Sealed with the Common Seal and the</HI> Inhabitants. </ITEM>
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<HEAD>Judgments in Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>In the Years <LIST>
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<ITEM>1679</ITEM>
<ITEM>1980</ITEM>
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<P>Re&s;olved, That all the <HI>Inhabitants</HI> in general, and not the Special Burge&s;&s;es only, have the Right of Electing Members to &s;erve in Parliament.</P>
<P><LABEL>OBJ. 1.</LABEL>That &s;ome latter Returns are by the Mayors, Bayliffs and Burge&s;&s;es, and under the Common Seal. </P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer.</LABEL>That makes nothing again&s;t Us, every Inhabitant being a Burge&s;s by the Charter of <HI>Ed.</HI> 4th, and mo&s;t Returns where there is a Mayor, being under <HI>the Common Seal,</HI> tho' they Chu&s;e by the Inhabitants at large. <NOTE PLACE="marg"> Vid. Char. 6 <HI>Edw. 4.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P><LABEL>OBJ. 2.</LABEL>That Two Judgments of Parliament, <HI>viz.</HI> in the Years 1660 and 1688, are in favour of the Mayor and Select Burge&s;&s;es. </P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer</LABEL>To the Fir&s;t of the&s;e Judgments we An&s;wer, That the Re&s;olution in the Year 1660; was occa&s;ioned by one <HI>Starkey</HI>'s mi&s;laying the Records of tho&s;e Returns abovementioned, as appears by the Report of the Committee, 1679. <NOTE PLACE="marg"> Vid. Report, <HI>1679.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P>As to the Second, We conceive the Ca&s;e in 1688. was grounded upon Nece&s;&s;ity, the Per&s;on that conte&s;ted the Right then being <HI>Speaker</HI> of the Hou&s;e, and hope neither of the&s;e Judgments &s;hall be able to &s;et a&s;ide an undoubted Right, proved by &s;o many Ancient Returns, and &s;etled further by <HI>Three</HI> Re&s;olutions, again&s;t which there can be no Objection.</P>
<P><LABEL>NOTE 1.</LABEL>They were not form'd into a Select Number not exceeding Thirty, till King <HI>James</HI> the Fir&s;t's Reign, which &s;hews the Ancient Right of Election cannot po&s;&s;ibly be in them. </P>
<P><LABEL>NOTE 2.</LABEL>That if the Select Burge&s;&s;es &s;hould be admitted to have the &s;ole Right, then in Ca&s;e their Corporation were Di&s;&s;olved, either by Surrender or Forfeiture of their Charter; the Town of <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> could &s;end no Burge&s;&s;es to Parliament, which would be again&s;t all Rea&s;on.</P>
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