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Excerpt from Letter From the Right Honourable Lord Carysfort to the Huntingdonshire Committee
The laws which have been made, from time to time, for regulating elections, and fixing the' qualifications of Electors, have not changed, the Confiitution. It was by fiatute, ih the reign offhenry VI. That the Electors for counties were requir edro have freehold of the value of forty [billings by the year, within the county. At that time, beneficial leafes, for long terms of years, were unknown; fo that, as 'the landed pro perty of'the kingdom was then circum?anced, it was cer tainly, more fully reprefented than it is at prefent. Copyhold ers were then little better than villains (f). They were in a date of' dependence upon their Lords. They could not; be confidered as having a will of their own, and, therefore, could have no (hare in the Government, no political liberty, at leafi: while they continued in that State. It would have been un reafonable, and unfafe, to have tru?ed men who had no real propeity, or freedom themfelves', With the freedom and property of Others.
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