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<HEAD><HI>A Short and True State of the Ca&s;e, re|lating to the Election for the Burrough of</HI> Corffe Ca&s;tle, <HI>in the I&s;le of</HI> Pur|beck, <HI>and County of</HI> Dor&s;et, <HI>which was on the 4th of</HI> Augu&s;t, 1698.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>William Culliford &amp; Edward Clauell</HI> E&s;qs; &s;tood again&s;t <HI>John Bankes &amp; Richard Fownes</HI> E&s;qs;</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Mr <HI>Culliford &amp;</HI> Mr <HI>Bankes</HI> Were Returned, and are the Sitting Members. Mr <HI>Clauell &amp;</HI> Mr <HI>Fownes</HI> are the Pe|titioners.</HEAD>
<P>BY the Mayors Poll (who as chief Magi&s;trate is Judge of the Electi|on) after the &s;tricte&s;t Scrutiny imaginable, and a good deal of par|tiality &s;how'd by the Mayor in favour of Mr <HI>Bankes</HI> and Mr <HI>Fownes,</HI> Mr <HI>Culliford</HI> had 85 Votes, Mr <HI>Bankes</HI> 70 Votes; Mr <HI>Clauell</HI> (who Petitions again&s;t Mr <HI>Bankes)</HI> 63 Votes, and Mr <HI>Fownes</HI> (who Petitions again&s;t Mr <HI>Culliford)</HI> but 52 Votes, whereupon the Mayor proclaimed Mr <HI>Culliford</HI> and Mr <HI>Bankes</HI> duly Elected.</P>
<P>Mr <HI>Fownes</HI> in his Petition allows the Majority to be on Mr <HI>Culliford</HI>'s &s;ide upon the Poll; But &s;ays that Mr <HI>Culliford,</HI> by Treating, and &s;everal in|direct Practices, at and before the Election, did procure &s;everal Votes to his prejudice; otherwi&s;e he had been Cho&s;en and Return'd; alledging he can prove the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Mr <HI>Culliford</HI> denies the fact ab&s;olutely, and believes that no per&s;on, who has either Credit or Reputation in his Country, or can be tru&s;ted there for &s;ix-pence, will pretend to prove any &s;uch thing.</P>
<P>Mr <HI>Clauell</HI> in his Petition again&s;t Mr <HI>Bankes</HI> In&s;i&s;ts to prove, that the Mayor did allow 5 per&s;ons to Vote for a Charity, contrary to all former u&s;eage, and again&s;t Law; and al&s;o 13 per&s;ons more, that pretended to have purcha&s;ed &s;everal &s;mall Tenements of one Mr <HI>Dackombe,</HI> ju&s;t before the Election; which, as is conceived, is expre&s;sly again&s;t the late Act of Parliament, <HI>for preventing the &s;plitting and dividing of intere&s;t in Hou&s;es or Lands, in order to multiply Votes:</HI> for that the &s;ame was not known in the Burrough above a week before the Election, and the Lea&s;es were dated all of one day, and &s;ome of the per&s;ons that bought the &s;aid Tenements ne|ver had &s;een them, or took po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame, until the day of Electi|on. Which &s;aid 5 Tru&s;tees, and 13 new made Votes, voted all for Mr <HI>Bankes</HI> and Mr <HI>Fownes.</HI> Which, if &s;et a&s;ide, then the Poll will &s;tand, for Mr <HI>Culliford</HI> 85, for Mr <HI>Clauell</HI> 63, for Mr <HI>Bankes</HI> 52, and for Mr <HI>Fownes</HI> but 34 Votes.</P>
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<P>Mr <HI>Cullifords</HI> CASE</P>
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