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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93290	Sir John Pakington's case at Droytwich		1689 (1689)	Wing S3882; ESTC R42574	1,553	1

Sir JOHN PAKINGTON's Case at Droytwich KING John granted to the Burgesses of Droytwich and their Heirs the Salt-springs there with divers priviledges and franchizes rendring the yearly fee farm rent of 100. l. Sterling and the Salt water hath ever since been divided into four hundred and four Shares called Bulleries which Bulleries have ever been bought Sold and Descended as other inheritances at the Common Law The grantees of King John and their Heires have long since aliened and sold their whole inheritance in the Salt-springs to several Persons who at this day stand seised in fee of the same and pay their proportions of the fee farm Rent reserv'd on the first grant And from the time of King Johns grant to the Reign of Queen Mary the first the Inheritors of the Salt-springs were deemed Burgesses of Droytwich and whoever sold his Inheritance ceased to be a Burgess Queen Mary Inco●porated the Burgesses of Droytwich by the name of Bayliffs and Burgesses and granted them divers franchizes as a Corporation and confirmed King Johns grant but takes no farther notice of the Salt-springs Nor appoints any select number to govern the said Burrough or Salt-works or any power to Elect new Burgesses or to exclude any who in Right of their Estates ought to act as Burgesses But of Late years the greatest part of those ancient Inheritances coming into the hands of Gentlemen of Quality and persons who lived remote the Bayliffs and Burgesses inhabiting in the Corporation taking advantage thereof set up several contrivances whereby they assumed to themselves not only the Governing and taxing the Salt-works at pleasure but of excluding the greater number of the inheritors by a single negative voyce from acting as Burgesses of the said Burrough either in giving their votes in Electing their Representatives in Parliament or Governing their own Estates and at the same time admitting meer strangers into the Corporation to strengthen their own party by which undue practices in less then twenty years they imposed above twenty thousand pounds upon the Inheritors Estates in the Salt-spring without their consents wherefore for prevention of the like oppressions for the future the Principal Proprietors did obtain an Act of Parliament in the first Sessions of their present Majesties Reign but did not then at all insist on their Right of Electing their Representatives in Parliament That the Inheritors of the Salt Springs are the undoubted Burgesses of Droytwich will appear I. The Fee-farm Rent on the first Grant is reserved from the Burgesses's of Droytwich and to this day charged on and paid by the Inheritors of the Salt-Springs II. The Burrough of Droytwich sent Members to Parliament long before the present Corporation which had its beginning but from the first year of Queen Mary as appears by Records in the Tower. III. By divers Ancient Orders and By-laws of the said Burrough made c. March the 6th 1689. Droytwich Election For Sir John Pakington Baronet For Philip Foley Esquire   Bul. Pts.   Bull. Pts. P. C rn Gilbert Coventrye Esquire 0 2 Mr. Edward Davies 2 0 0 Mr. John Newport 0 1 Mr. Edw. Lench Pepper corn Mr. Tho. Rastell 9 3 Mr. John Newport Junior pr. c. John Winford Esquire 3 0 Geo. Lench Barber pr. c. Mr. Edw. Rastell 1 0 Mr. Edw. Butler Senior pr. c. Mr. Tho. Lench 0 1 Mr. Arnald Burgill 0 1   Mr. Nicholas Harris 0 1 Geo. Harrison Labourer 0 p.   Mr. Francis Hill 0 2 Sir Walter Kircum Blount 20 1 0 Mr. Edward Phillips 3 1 Mr. Henry Hodges 4 0 0 Mr. John Sparrey 0 1 Mr. Burgbill Conard 0 p.   Mr. Tho. Norbury 0 1 Mr. Edward Clifford 0 p.   Mr. John Phillips 0 1 Mr. Weinter Harris 0 1 0 Mr. John Stone 3 1 Mr. Ed. Butler Jun. 0 p.   Mr. Henry Johnson 5 3 Mr. Ed. Wheeler 5 0 0 Mr. John Watts 11 2 Mr. William Norrice 0 p. 0 Mr. Richard French 1 0 Mr. William Wilks 0 p. 0 Mr. John Newman 3 0 William Beedle Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. John Watts Junior 1 0 John Evett Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. Tho. Amphlett 0 1 John Lacy Cooper 0 p. 0 Mr. John Nash 2 0 Philip Pardoe Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. James Roberts 1 3 Walter Pardoe Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. John French 5 0 Will. Beedle Jun. Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. William Bookey 3 0   32 1 0 Mr. Geo. Harris 9 0 Of these 22 Persons 12 of them have only the bare Qualification of a Pepper-Corn and of the 32 Bulleries and Quarter Sir Walter Blount is the owner of 20 and a Quarter Mr. Richard Norbury 6 1 Mr. Tho. Roberts 0 1   72 2 These 26 Persons have the Inheritance of 72 Bulleries and a half