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1679 Answer Burgesses & Inhabitants Buckingham 1 A most false and scandalous Pamphlet..notoriously known to thousands that were present at the County Election.

1702 W. Kennett Case Præmunientes Considered 15/1 The Incumbents of Parochial Churches (as such) did vote only for the Diocesan Proctors, not for the County Members.

1739 in Coll. Parl. Deb. Eng. (1741) XVIII. 380 Our ministers might..have endeavoured to recommend themselves to our county electors.

1786 Morning Chron. 30 June The whole plan must be changed—that was the object of this excellent Bill, and it was proposed to be done by a register of county votes.

1792 B. Flower French Constit. ii. 181 A freehold estate of forty shillings a year, is the qualification necessary for a county voter.

1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 409/1 (House of Commons), England and Wales: The number of county constituencies before the Reform Act was 52.

1859 Harper's Mag. May 836/1 He set forth the wrong which the Bill would inflict upon county freeholders.

1868 G. O. Trevelyan in Daily News (1884) 10 Dec. 3/3 As regards the County Franchise, I am clearly of opinion that it should be identified with the Borough Franchise.

1883 W. E. Gladstone Let. 10 Dec. in Polit. Corr. Gladstone & Granville 1876–1886 (1962) II. 123 I think the votes he had given in favour of enlarging the County Suffrage justified me in an opposite conclusion.

1927 Polit. Sci. Q. 42 75 Morley states that..approximately 40,000 persons in the kingdom had followed Cobden's urging to qualify as county voters.

1978 J. Ramsden Age of Balfour & Baldwin (BNC) 65 Long was supported by the bulk of the English county members but by few of the party's men of talent.

1997 G. Segell Electronic Democracy ii. 54 By 1430 the first property restriction was introduced on the county franchise.

2010 I. St John Disraeli & Art of Victorian Politics ii. 58 It was believed that these extra county voters..would vote Conservative.