London Gazette index entry detail

Publication details:

Publication date: 17 Mar 1792.

Issue: 13398.

Page: 182.

Parish:

Seaford.

Person details:

Name: Sir. Godfrey Webster Baronet.

Marital Status: Not given.

Notes:

Lunae, 19’ Die Martii, 1792. WHereas the Select Committee appointed to try and determine the Merits of the Petition of Sir Godfrey Webster, Baronet, and John Tarleton, Esquire, complaining of an undue Election and Return for the Town and Port of Seaford in the County of Sussex, have this Day reported to the House of Commons, That it appeared to the said Select Committee that the Merits of the Petition did in Part depend upon the Right of Election, and that thereupon the said Committee required the Counsel for the several Parties to deliver to the Clerk of the said Committee Statements in Writing of the Right of Election for which they respectively contended. That in consequence thereof the Counsel for the Sitting Members, John Sargent and Richard Paul Jodrell, Esquires, delivered in a Statement as follows: "That the Right of Election is in the Bailiff, Jurats and Freemen, and in the Populacy, according to the last Determination of the House of the 10th of February, 1670, by which Word Populacy are meant Inhabitants Housekeepers paying Scot and Lot, as explained by the Resolutions of the House of the 15th of December, 1761. " That upon the said Statement the said Select Committee have determined, "That the Right of Election, as set forth in the said Statement, is not the Right of Election for the said Town and Port of Seaford. " That the Counsel for the said Petitioners, Sir Godfrey Webster, Baronet, and John Tarleton, Esquire, delivered in a Statement as follows: "The Counsel for the Petitioners state, that the Right of Election for the Town and Port of Seaford, according as the same was decided by the last Determination in the House of Commons on the 10th of February, 1670-1, is "in the Populacy, " or, according to the Interpretation of the Word " Populacy" by the Resolution of the said House on the 15th of December, 1761, in the Inhabitants Housekeepers of the said Town and Port paying Scot and Lot, and in such Inhabitants Housekeepers only. " That upon the said last mentioned Statement the said Select Committee have determined, "That the Right" of Election is in the Inhabitants Housekeepers of the said Town and Port, and in such Inhabitants only. " I do hereby give this Notice, in pursuance of the Directions of the Act made in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the further Regulation of the Trials of Controverted Elections, or Returns of Members to serve in Parliament. " Given under my Hand the Nineteenth Day of March.

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GAZ_London-Gazette-02.csv.

Transcribed by:

Michael Metcalfe.

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