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Parliamentary Writs Handled for Wiltshire and Nearby Boroughs
The Commons, on Thursday the nineteenth of Muay, ordered a new writ for a Burgess for Od Surum in Wilts to replace the late Thomas Pitt. They also read and passed a bill on forfeited Scottish estates and resumed debate on a bill to stop frivolous arrests. Next, six new writs were ordered for MPs in Clifton Dartmouth, Weymouth, New Windsor, Grampound, Dunhever alias Latin castoun, and a Kent shire seat, with further writs planned for Roxburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commons
O d
Surum
Wilts
Thomas Pitt
Deceas
Scotland
Clifton
Dartmouth
Hardies
Devonshire
Thomas Martyn
Carnarvon
Merioneth
Anglesea
Principality of Wales
Weymouth
Melcomb Regis
Derseshire
Ohn Ward
New Windsor
Berksiire
Sir Charles Beauclerk
Knight of the Bath
Earl of Burford
Duke of
William Cavendish
Lord Marquess of Hartington
His Majesty’s Gentlemen Pensioners
Dunhever
Castoin
Cornwall
John Wills
Chester
Wemsteland
Anthony Lowther
His Majesty’s Revenue
Ireland
Speaker
Shire of
Roxburgh
Gilbert Elliot