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<HEAD>The Ca&s;e Of <HI>William Coryton,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> for the Burrough of <HI>Michell</HI> in the County of <HI>Cornwall.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To be heard on Monday <DATE>the 25^t^h^. of <HI>November,</HI> 1689.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>THAT a new Writ being Ordered to i&s;&s;ue for the Choice of a Burge&s;s to &s;erve in Parliament for the &s;aid Burrough, in the &s;tead of <HI>Charles Fan&s;haw,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> the &s;aid Writ was accordingly taken out by the Petitioner <HI>Humphry Courtney,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> or his Agents, the Twenty fifth, of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t, but detained in their own hands with|out delivering the &s;ame to the Sheriff to be executed, although often thereunto reque&s;ted, until about the Eighteenth of <HI>September;</HI> at which time the Petitioner, and the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Coryton</HI> &s;tood Candidates, and the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Coryton</HI> was thereupon duely elected by the Majority of the Burge&s;&s;es and Inhabitants Electors of the &s;aid Burrough; the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Coryton</HI> having Twenty three Votes, and the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Courtney</HI> but Nineteen, as appeas by the Poll.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Coryton</HI> was accordingly returned by the Port Reeve, the proper Officer of the &s;aid Burrough, and his Indenture annexed to the &s;aid Writ, and returned by the High Sheriff.</P>
<P>Yet notwith&s;tanding the fairene&s;s of &s;uch Election, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Court|ney</HI> to put the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Coryton,</HI> to, further Trouble and Charges, hath <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 word"> pre&s;ented a Petition complaining of an undue and and fal&s;e Return, pretending that he had the Majority of well qualli|fied Electors; whereas in Truth and in Fact, the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Coryton</HI> was duely Cho&s;en and Elected, as well by the Majority of the &s;aid Burge&s;&s;es and Inhabitants of the &s;aid Burrough, as by the Majority of the &s;aid Burge&s;&s;es and Inhabitants of the &s;aid Burrough paying Scot and Lot.</P>
<P><HI>All which the &s;aid</HI> Mr. Coryton <HI>will make out at the hearing before the Committee.</HI></P>
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