Naturalized persons ineligible, 35. Foreign princes marrying
with the royal family, ib. n. When foreign seamen, protestants
and jews may vote, 164.

Newark case, 319.

Notice for election, 26 and n. 28, 75, 92, 94. On Sunday, 95,
Of disqualification, 171, 173. Vid. Candidate, Voter.

Norwich, 186, 191, 196, 347, 354, 357.

New Shoreham, 93, 186, 194.

Non jurors cannot vote, 244.
Norton v. Sutton, 358, 360.
Newcastle-under-Lyne case, 212.

0.

Oaths, vid. APPEN. To candidate, 60, 170, 172, 179, 194. When
not authorized, illegal, 184, 198. To be administered by com-
missioner, 108, 113, 197. In any language, 113, 164. Bribery
oath to be administered by the returning officer, 87, n. 113. Mo-
ravians and Quakers may affirm, 112, 114, 244. Voter rejected
for refusing to take the bribery oath, may tender again and take
it, 113. May be taken in any language, 113, 165. To free-
holders, 112. If not required, discretionary in the returning
officer, ib. General oaths. Vid. Allegiance and Supremacy,
(or, if Quakers, declaration of fidelity) of abjuration (or declara-
tion of effect thereof,) and bribery oath, may be required of all
electors, ib. May be administered by commissioners, except
bribery oath, 113. Must be administered if required, 114.
Outlaws in criminal suits, ineligible, 35. Secus in other suits, ib.
May vote, 169.

Offices, what vacates a seat, 48, 49, n.
Clerks' signet and privy
seal office, 54. Auditors and tellers of exchequer and clerk of

pells, ib. What renders a man ineligible to parliament, 49, 50,
53. Exceptions, 50, n. 53, 54. Exception, vice-president of
board of trade, 54. If he divests himself of his office, 51.
Disabled voting or interfering at elections, 66, 202. Excep-
tions, 272.
Occasionality in case of freeholders for counties and cities being
counties of themselves, 287. In case of freemen, 295. Does
not apply to inchoate rights, ib. Nor to burgage tenures, 287
295. To inhabitants, 296.
Okehampton case, 307, 338.

P.

Parliamentary representation, date of, 3.

Parliament, the king's council not, ib. Of calling it and its pur-
pose originally, 10, 19, 241. Once a year, 19. Its duration
indefinite, ib. Fixed at three years, by statute, 20. Repealed,
ib. Once in three years, enlarged to seven years by statute,
20. Dissolution of, by demise of the crown, 20. APPEN.
Paupers cannot vote, 165. Exceptions. 166. Relief to militia-
men, ib. Charity, what, 167. Vid. Alms.
Prynne, his opinion of the right of voting before
Pensions, persons holding, disqualified, 49, 54.
fied, if the wife only has the pension, 54.
Alms.

Petit and Combe, 30, n.

23 H. 6, p. 9.
But not disquali-
Pensioner. Vid.

Perjury, persons convicted of, cannot vote, 169. Vid. Evidence.
Parish clerk may vote, 149, 200, 271.

books, evidence of rate where the original cannot be found,
205 d.

the oaths, 246.
Penalty £. 500, p. 49.

65, 249, n. Ferguson's case,
Resolutions of the

relief. Vid. Alms, Charity.
Papists may vote, if they will take
Placemen generally ineligible, 48.
Petition, its allegations, 346.
Peers not to interfere at elections,
Lanark, 66. Can't vote, 65, n. 337, n.
house to that effect, 65, 337, n. Ineligible, 37. Except Irish
peers, ib. Sons of Scotch peers eligible, 40, 62. Being the
eldest son of a peer, a qualification, 60. Eldest son of a Scotch
peer, aqualification, 62. Vid. Candidate.

Prisoners in execution for debt, eligible, 41.

Plympton case, 315.

Populacy, what, 206, 208, 317.

Potwallers, ib.

Pomfret case, 319.

Poole case, 324.

Poll, if demanded, must be granted, 103. By whom to be taken
and at what time, 103, 104, 195, 211. Hours of taking, 15
days, 105. How to be taken in counties, ib. In booths, ac-

cording to the hundreds, 145. For freeholder within the
hundred, ib. Sheriff may correct mistakes in, if pointed out in
time, 138. Must be in writing for counties, 149, 180. But
need not for boroughs, 196. How to be taken in cities, coun-
ties of themselves, 180. In towns, by 25 G. 3, c. 84, p. 195.
Closing and casting up of poll, and of equality of numbers, 173,
176, 212. By proclamation, 173. Revived poll, void, 176.
Continuation of, by others, illegal, ib. Poll at Southampton,
178. In London, 192. Adjournment of, 211, 327. Poll
books, making up of, 233. Evidence of poll book, 212, 233,
237. Who to have the custody of, 212, 237. To be declared
on the ord aty daafter closing, 62, 101, 180, 212. Proposal
for furthe limiting the duration of 326.

Poll clerk sworn, 105, 181, 196. How paid, 107, 183. Their
duty, 107, 182.

Police justices not to vote or interfere at elections, 52, 53, n. 67,
68, n.

Pensioners, 49, 293. Vid. Pensions, Alms.

Pembrokeshire case, 27, n.

Poll-book may be rectified on evidence, 138.

Where not, 139.

Making np of, 233, 237. Copies of, must be granted, ib.
240.
Precept, its issuing, 179. Of vacancy at the time of, 89. After
time of, 90. To be within three days, 80. In cinque ports,
six days, 81. To whom to be delivered, 80. To whom di-
rected, 81, 82, 83. Time indorsed, 81. When delivered to
improper persons, 89. Must be read before proceeding to
election, 82.

Proclamation. Vid. Notice.
Pollexfin v. Moore, 279.
Peterborough case, 300, 319, 321.
Pike v. R. 309.

Pontefract case, 346.

Pit v. Rex, 339.

Petersfield case, 346.

Post-office. Vid. Offices.

Peake v. Bourne, p. 271, n,

Q.

Quo Warranto, not after 20 years, 309.
Qualification, 56. When to be executed, 63.

lands in Scotland, 60, 220, tit. Candidate.
Quakers and Dissenters may vote, 114, 168, 243.

R.

Residence of corporator, when necessary or not, 206. What, 209,
318. Of freeholders. 9. Of sheriff, one having long been
member of the corporation, took a house within borough for a
year, and slept in it the night before election, and for two
days a month after, held good residence, 209. Otherwise of
occasional lodgers, ib. Vid. Inhabitants.

Reprises, 9.

Radnorshire case, 352.

Representation, origin and date of, 3, 241, 289. Of counties, 5.
Lawyers excluded from, 7. In cities and boroughs, 7, 11.
Object of, 10, 127.

Representative body, number of, 13.

Riots at elections, 71, 114, 187, 199, 327. Application to the
house in such case, 115. Magistrates ordered by the house to
attend, 116. Prosecution in K. B. for, followed by imprison-
ment, 118, n. Sheriffs, &c. to record, and record to be convic-
tion, 118. When riot act to be read, 119 Persons may be
committed, 122. By any returning officer, 125, 337. Will
void election, 125. Where not, 126.
Recusants, popish, ineligible, 41.

Resiant, what, 319.

R. v.

Rex v.

R. v.

R. v. Ser-

R. v.

R. v.

R. v.

R. v. Richardson, 75. R. v. Sheriff Parkins and others, 125, n.
R. v. Mallet, 318. Regina v. Dr. Wall, 271, n.
Spearing, 308. R. v. Stace, 309. R. v. Pike, ib.
Bond, ib. R. v. Weebly. R. v. Monday, 292, n.
jeant, 209, 318. R. v. Davis, 234. R. v. Castel Careinion,
245, n.
Warren, 273. R. v. Midhurst, 308.
Morris, 311. R. v. Stewart, ib. R. v. Saunders, 312.
Clouting, 318. R. v. Weobly, 322. R. v. Pit, 339.
Vaughan, 356, n.
Rates, by whom made and altered, p. 205, 308 by two sets of
overseers, 320. Rateability where gone into. 308, 322. Need
not be made at a vestry, 323. Fraudulently deferred, 320, 322.
A prior rate made the rate, 323, Not paying to, is a disquali-
fication, 205, 323. Qu. if the overseer compelled to produce
it, 205. Parish books, evidence of the original being lost,
205. vid. Evidence, Windsor Act.

Return must be by indentures, 221, 236, 238. Any other bad,
222. Amendable, ib. 232. Of stealing, 223. Of counterpart,
where indentures stolen, ib. Must not be accepted by wrong
officer, ib. May be made by a woman, 242, n. Annexing in-
dentures, 224. Negligent returns, ib. 225 and n. Returning
officer punishable for not making return, ib. and n.
Return to
be made within 14 days after election on new writ, by stat.
W. 3. p.225, 227, 228. Returns on general writ, 213, 227.
Special returns, 227. Danger of delaying returns, 224, 228.
False returns, 230.
Double returns, 177, 221, 232, 239.

Petitions upon them, 231. Returns on general writs, on or
before the return day, or new writs within 52 days after date
of writ, 227, 228, 231. Return to be entered by clerk of the
crown, 232. His book, or a copy, evidence, ib. Penalty for
neglect, ib. Vid. Writs.

Returning Officers, ineligible for the places where they are to
make the return, 56, 78, 80. Must declare the election within
a reasonable time if no contest, 62, 101, 180. Need not be an
elector, 74, 83. Where more than one, 74. Cannot be chosen
to the office two successive years, 74. Exceptions, 75. Iu
case of vacancy in the office at the time of issuing writ, 77.
After the time, 78. Must not take a fee, 82. Usurpation of
the office, 84, 85, 196. When they decline to act, 86. Notice
to the sheriff of such intrusion, 88. In case of the death or
change of officers pending the proceedings, 90, 91. May com-
mit persons disturbing the proceedings, 122, 125. Oaths to,
194. Their power limited in taking scrutiny, 219. Penalties
they incur for false, negligent, or double returns, 225, n. 231.
But these penal acts extend only to sheriffs and persons having
the return of the writ, 238. Being appointed to the office will
not vacate a seat, 55. Their duty, 28, 73, 83, 92, 100, 111,
179, 193. To erect booths, make out lists, &c. 29, 74, 30.
To allow cheque book, ib. In case of death of, who to act, ib.
89, 90. Punishment for neglect of duty, 31, 81, 91. Qu. if
ministerial or judicial, 21, n. 31 and n. 34, n. 91, 176, 215.
Has not a casting voice, 176. To read bribery act, 100, 193.
Liable to an action for misconduct, 178, But this must be
founded on wilful and malicious misfeasance, 32, 227, n.
in boroughs, 195. Vid. Sheriff, Candidate.

Reading case, 54, 212, 292.

Rochester case, 60, 326, APPENDIX 139.

Rawlins v. Bush, 346, 355, 358.

Richardton v. Rex, 74.

Ridler v. Moore, 352, 354.
Ribbons v. Crickett, 352o.

Rose v. Smith, 352b.

Who

S.

Sheriffs, in the case of the death of, who to act, 31. At first
under no controul as to boroughs, 7, 11. How and when to
make out precepts to boroughs, So. Partiality and misconduct.
with respect to boroughs, 89. If ministerial or judicial, 21, n.
Is answerable for the conduct of persons they appoint, 106,
354. How far eligible, 56. Members of Parliament not to be
appointed, 517. Oaths to, 99, 179. May vote, 163. Liable
to penalties for bad or false returns, 225, 226, n. Viů. Returning
Officer.