The Case of Sir Nathaniel Napper, Baronet elected one of the members for the town and county of Poole, to sit in the convention the 22d of January instant. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A35647 of text R5690 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C996). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A35647 Wing C996 ESTC R5690 12270925 ocm 12270925 58238 2264216468

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A35647) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 58238) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 176:4) The Case of Sir Nathaniel Napper, Baronet elected one of the members for the town and county of Poole, to sit in the convention the 22d of January instant. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1689?] Place and date of publication from Wing. eng Napper, Nathaniel, -- Sir, d. 1709. Elections -- England -- Dorset. Poole (Dorset, England) -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The case of Sir Nathaniel Napper, Baronet. Elected one of the Members for the town and county of Poole, to sit in the convention the 22d of January in Napper, Nathaniel, Sir, 1689 1 264 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-03 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-05 Sampled and proofread 2008-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE CASE Of Sir Nathaniel Napper , Baronet . Elected one of the Members for the Town and County of Poole , to Sit in the Convention the 22d of January Instant .

THAT the said Town and County of Poole hath , by Prescription , always Elected Members for Parliament by their Mayor and Burgesses only , as by all the Returns ever since 12 Edw. IV. appears .

That Sir N. Napper , with H. Trenchard Esq was duly Chosen by the Majotity of such as have Right to Vote , to Serve in this Convention , and was then Returned by the Sheriff ( in terminis ) Elected according to such Ancient and Customary Usage , and according to His Highnesses Letter .

That the Sheriff also hath returned Tho. Chaffin Esq Elected by the Commonalty , tho' they never before did , or had a Right to Elect.

That the Merits of this Cause and Return was heard by the Committee of Elections on Monday last , and the Majority by 12 of the said Committee then Voted for Mr. Chaffin .

That if the Election by the Commonalty be allowed , it will , by this Example , let in the Commonalty for the Future , and not only at present Exclude Sir N. Napper , but also destroy the Mayor and Burgesses Ancient and Customary Right of Election , as aforesaid , for the Future .

It is therefore most humbly Requested , That this Cause may be heard at the Bar of this Honourable House .