A short and true state of the case, repleating to the election for the Burrough of Corsse Castle, in the Isle of Purbeck, and County of Dorset, which was on the 4th of August, 1698. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A93192 of text R184148 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3558). 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. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A93192 Wing S3558 ESTC R184148 43078136 ocm 43078136 151712 2240883322

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A93192) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 151712) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2273:9) A short and true state of the case, repleating to the election for the Burrough of Corsse Castle, in the Isle of Purbeck, and County of Dorset, which was on the 4th of August, 1698. Culliford, Mr. Fownes, Richard, Esq. Bankes, John. Clauell, Edward. 1 sheet ([2] p.) s.n., [London : 1698] Caption title. Place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in: Lincoln's Inn Library, London, England. eng Contested elections -- England -- Early works to 1800. Isle of Purbeck (England) -- History. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo A short and true state of the case, relating to the election for the burrough of Corffe Castle, in the Isle of Purbeck, and county of Dorset, which wa Culliford, William, 1698 2 475 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. 2012-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-03 Sampled and proofread 2013-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Short and True State of the Case , relating to the Election for the Burrough of Corffe Castle , in the Isle of Purbeck , and County of Dorset , which was on the 4th of August , 1698. William Culliford & Edward Clauell Esqs ; stood against John Bankes & Richard Fownes Esqs ; Mr Culliford & Mr Bankes Were Returned , and are the Sitting Members . Mr Clauell & Mr Fownes are the Petitioners .

BY the Mayors Poll ( who as chief Magistrate is Judge of the Election ) after the strictest Scrutiny imaginable , and a good deal of partiality show'd by the Mayor in favour of Mr Bankes and Mr Fownes , Mr Culliford had 85 Votes , Mr Bankes 70 Votes ; Mr Clauell ( who Petitions against Mr Bankes ) 63 Votes , and Mr Fownes ( who Petitions against Mr Culliford ) but 52 Votes , whereupon the Mayor proclaimed Mr Culliford and Mr Bankes duly Elected .

Mr Fownes in his Petition allows the Majority to be on Mr Culliford's side upon the Poll ; But says that Mr Culliford , by Treating , and several indirect Practices , at and before the Election , did procure several Votes to his prejudice ; otherwise he had been Chosen and Return'd ; alledging he can prove the same .

Mr Culliford denies the fact absolutely , and believes that no person , who has either Credit or Reputation in his Country , or can be trusted there for six-pence , will pretend to prove any such thing .

Mr Clauell in his Petition against Mr Bankes Insists to prove , that the Mayor did allow 5 persons to Vote for a Charity , contrary to all former useage , and against Law ; and also 13 persons more , that pretended to have purchased several small Tenements of one Mr Dackombe , just before the Election ; which , as is conceived , is expressly against the late Act of Parliament , for preventing the splitting and dividing of interest in Houses or Lands , in order to multiply Votes : for that the same was not known in the Burrough above a week before the Election , and the Leases were dated all of one day , and some of the persons that bought the said Tenements never had seen them , or took possession of the same , until the day of Election . Which said 5 Trustees , and 13 new made Votes , voted all for Mr Bankes and Mr Fownes . Which , if set aside , then the Poll will stand , for Mr Culliford 85 , for Mr Clauell 63 , for Mr Bankes 52 , and for Mr Fownes but 34 Votes .

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