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Stafford Borough election rights and parliamentary resolutions
Historical Register reports on the Stafford Borough election dispute. Resolutions deny voting rights to certain Burgesses and declare Francis Elde unseated. Lord Chetewynd is proclaimed duly elected. Margate Pier rights bill read third time and sent to Lords. Petitions seek debt settlement with Treasury and consent given for House action. Edmun Buckinghamsire and Normancy, infant petitioners, noted.
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Stafford
John Dolphin
Francis Elde
Walter Lord Viscount Chetewynd
Kingdom of Ireland
Margate
Kent
Edmund Ashty
Benjamin Blundell
Leicester
Treasury
Edmund Duke of