I believe that the number of freeholders of Yorkshire exceeds that of all the electors who return the Opposition.
What sign of a reaction did the honourable Baronet who now represents Okehampton find among the freeholders of Cornwall?
English advice to the freeholders of England," which had been freely circulated for the purpose of advocating the Pretender's claims.
One of them began: "Having seen a rascally paper which contained advice to freeholders in favor of a court party and tools of arbitrary power to enslave and ruin a free born people .
So he affixed his signature to a bill limiting the right to vote to freeholders owning 100 acres of unoccupied land or twenty-five acres with a house.
Francis, his son and heir, is mentioned among thefreeholders in the court rolls of the Manor of Chelsea, 35 Henry VIII.
The main strength of the opposition lay among the small freeholders in the country, and among the merchants and shopkeepers of the towns.
The Whig freeholders were compelled to tie their horses to the hedges, and to sleep under the open sky in the meadows which surround the little town.
On the 7th of March, there was held at Kilmainham, an assembly of the freeholders of the county of Dublin, when the following instructions to their representatives were agreed on.
On a bridge in the background is a carriage, with colours flying, and a cavalcade composed of worthy and independent freeholders advancing to give their suffrages with all possible éclat.
If the freeholders in the manor diminish to less than two in number the court baron cannot be held, and the manor perishes.
Nor can it be revived by the grant of new freehold tenures, because under the statute of Quia Emptores such new freeholders would hold not of the lord of the manor, but of his lord.
In the court customary the lord's steward is the judge; in the court baron the freeholders are the judges.
The small freeholders who possessed neither servants nor slaves did not disappear entirely, but they gradually declined in numbers and sank into abject poverty.
And the sturdy, independent class of small farmers who made up a full 90 per cent of the freeholders at the time the rent roll was taken, have been relegated into undeserved obscurity.
It's thanks to him that the new Board of Freeholders put in decent plumbing all through the place.
No doubt the Board of Freeholders was to be congratulated on its choice of a matron for the poor farm--but it was awe she inspired in the minds of the three girls before her.
Jeremy's militiamen--eight in number--were all smallfreeholders with rusty matchlocks and no battle experience.
Part of that success, she knew, derived from his practice of lending money to hard-pressed freeholdersat generous rates but short terms, then foreclosing on their lands the moment the sight bills came due.
These freeholders seem to think they've done all they need, after Jamestown.
Little wonder so many of the smaller freeholderswere openly talking about surrender.
On the other hand, it'd probably not be wise to try calling up any of the small freeholders and freemen.
First he had convinced the king's proprietor to reduce rents on the island, then he had created an elected Assembly of small freeholders to counter the high-handed rule of the powerful Council.
Jeremy suspected several had deliberately surrendered--small freeholders who didn't care a damn whether Cromwell's fleet took the island or not.
These small freeholders on the Assembly don't understand this island wasn't settled just so we'd have a batch of five-acre gardens.
This record, popularly styled the Ragman Roll, containing the names of about two thousand freeholders and men of substance in Scotland, is of extreme value to the Scottish genealogist and antiquary.
The class of small freeholders sprang fast out of the wreck of it into numbers and importance.
The long peace and prosperity of the realm, the extension of its commerce and the increased export of wool, were swelling the ranks and incomes of the country gentry as well as of the freeholders and substantial yeomanry.
However small the estates thus created might be, the bulk were held directly of the Crown; and this class of lesser gentry and freeholders grew steadily from this time in numbers and importance.
In the summer of 1278 a royal writ ordered all freeholders who held lands to the value of twenty pounds to receive knighthood at the king's hands.
But save that the king's reeve had taken the place of the king and that the Norman legislation had displaced the Bishop and set four Coroners by the Sheriff's side, the gathering of the freeholders remained much as of old.
But a far greater constitutional change in their position had already taken place through the extension of electoral rights to the freeholders at large.
That four knights should be chosen by the freeholders of each county to ascertain and lay before the parliament the trespasses, excesses, and injuries committed within the county under the royal administration; 2.
Similar independent small freeholders also existed here and there in other provinces, where they had succeeded in buying off the feudal charges formerly due upon their lands.
The rights of settlers who had preceded the proprietary government were ignored, and an attempt made to reduce freeholders to the position of tenants.
As this legislative action placed all freeholders upon the same footing, civil and religious, Donald McDonald's long continued labors in Williamsburg were at an end and he and his fellow laborers returned home.
Under the state constitution, the legislative department was divided into a House of Delegates and a Senate; eligibles were to be freeholders elected by freeholders.
Only freeholders and copyholders with the custom of the manor in their favor were secure against eviction.
Also, jurors were to be selected by sheriffs rather than elected by freeholders and inhabitants.
In a trial of commoners for their lives, a jury of twelve freeholders had to all agree on acquittal or conviction.
No man by force of arms, malice or menacing shall disturb anyone in making free election [of sheriffs, coroners, conservators of the peace by freeholders of the county].
Now for each of these classes a separate court was held--for the freeholders a Court Baron; for the villeins another called a Customary Court.
The tenants are freeholders and possessed certain privileges, the chief of which was a right to sue and be sued only in their lord's court.
In this way arose a manor, of which it will be seen the tenants formed two classes, the freeholders and the villeins.
It had been this year formed and consisted of sixty freeholders of the town.
Freeholders or owners of real estate only had the privilege of voting at this period.
At this time the electors were confined to freeholders only.
No meeting of more than fifty people was to be held without six days' notice to a magistrate; only freeholders or inhabitants were to be allowed even to attend; and adjournments were forbidden.
At Gatton the right of election lay in the hands of freeholdersand householders paying scot and lot; but the only elector was Lord Monson, who returned two members.
After the completion of the list, the freeholders mentioned above notified the owners to appear before them upon a certain day, and show cause why their slaves should not be chosen for the service of the colony.
Because the settlers, being freeholders of only fifty-acre lots, requiring but one or two extra hands for their cultivation, the German servants would be a third more profitable than the blacks.
An Act for the trial of Negroes" provided that two justices and six freeholders should have full power to try "negro and mulatto slaves" for heinous offences.
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