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<HEAD>The CASE of EDWARD CLAVILL <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> duly elected (altho not returned) one of the Burge&s;&s;es to &s;erve in this pre&s;ent Parliament for the Borough of <HI>Corfe-Ca&s;tle</HI> in the County of <HI>Dor&s;et.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN the Borough of <HI>Corfe-Ca&s;tle,</HI> by antient Cu&s;tom, the Electors for Burge&s;&s;es of Parliament are all Inhabi|tants that pay Scot and Lot, and all that have any E&s;tate of Inheritance, or Freehold, or Lea&s;ehold, determinable upon Life or Lives.</P>
<P>At the la&s;t Election there were four Candidates, <HI>viz. Wil|liam Culliford, Edward Clavill, Richard Founds,</HI> and <HI>John Banks</HI> E&s;quires; and there were given Eighty five Votes for Mr. <HI>Cul|liford,</HI> Sixty three for Mr. <HI>Clavill,</HI> Fifty two for Mr. <HI>Fownds,</HI> and Seventy <HI>(talia qualia)</HI> for Mr. <HI>Banks.</HI></P>
<P><HI>In this Borough are fourteen Tenements, which were granted by Lea&s;es for Lives to &s;o many &s;everal Tenants, and they according to Cu|&s;tom and Right voted at the Election. Notwith&s;tanding which, Mr.</HI> Dackcomb, <HI>who had granted the&s;e Lea&s;es, did a little before the Election, convey the Rever&s;ion to fourteen &s;everal other Per&s;ons, on purpo&s;e to vote for Mr.</HI> Banks, <HI>and were admitted by the Mayor.</HI> When the Words of the Act <HI>Septimo &amp; Octavo Gulielmi Tertii,</HI> for further regulating Elections of Members to &s;erve in Parliament, are as followeth. <Q>That all Conveyances of any Me&s;&s;uages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in any County, City, Borough, Town Corporate, Port, or Place, in order to multiply Voices, or to &s;plit and di|vide the Intere&s;t in any Hou&s;es or Lands among&s;t &s;everal Per&s;ons, to enable them to vote at Elections of Members to &s;erve in Parliament, are hereby declared void, and of none effect; <HI>[and that no more than one &s;ingle Voice &s;hall be admitted for one and the &s;ame Hou&s;e or Tenement.]</HI></Q></P>
<P>In this Borough likewi&s;e are &s;ome Lands given to the Poor of the Pari&s;h of <HI>VVimbourn,</HI> which are under the Ma|nagement of &s;everal Tru&s;tees, five of which were admitted to vote for Mr. <HI>Banks.</HI></P>
<P>Be&s;ides the&s;e nineteen Voters, divers others, who had no Right in this Election, were brought to vote for Mr. <HI>Banks,</HI> who having the Mayor in his Intere&s;t, is returned in&s;tead of Mr. <HI>Clavill,</HI> who had the Majority of legal Votes.</P>
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