The case of J. Howe, touching the election of Cirencester. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B02583 of text R170950 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C920). 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 B02583 Wing C920 ESTC R170950 52211906 ocm 52211906 175476 2240898611

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B02583) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 175476) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2738:16) The case of J. Howe, touching the election of Cirencester. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1690] Caption title. Publication data suggested by Wing. Reproduction of the original in the Lincoln's Inn Library. eng Howe, John, fl. 1690 -- Trials, litigations, etc. -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. -- Parliament. -- House of Commons -- Contested elections -- Early works to 1800. Elections -- Corrupt practices -- England -- Cirencester -- Early works to 1800. Cirencester (England) -- Politics and government -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The case of J. Howe, touching the election of Cirencester. The poll originally taken, as agreed on all hands, stands as follows. J. Howe. 409. H. Powl [no entry] 1690 1 303 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 J. Howe , Touching the ELECTION of CIRENCESTER .

The Poll originally taken , as agreed on all Hands , stands as follows .

J. Howe . H. Powle . Ric. Howe . 409. 340. 323.

Cast up as taken at the Hearing before the Committee , Wednesday , 22 October , in manner following .

Admitting the 157 Voices which were excepted against by the Sitting Members Council to be bad , Mr. John Howe 's Number yet remains 252.

Take from Mr. Henry Powle 51 bad Voices , being of the aforesaid 157 , which voted for him and Mr. John Howe , with 56 which polled for him and Mr. Richard Howe , and were proved to have received Relief , together with 2 set down for R. H. and H. P. which were confessed not to have been at the Poll , in all 109 ; his Number remains 231.

Take from Mr. Richard Howe 27 bad Voices , ( being part of the aforesaid 157 ) which voted for him and Mr. John Howe , together with 56 which were confessed to have received Relief , and polled for him and Mr. H. P. with 3 which polled single for himself , and the 2 which were proved not to have been at the Poll , being in all 88 , his Number is 235.

So that the true Account of the Poll , all Exceptions against the Petitioners Voices allowed , is as follows .

Mr. John Howe . Mr. Richard Howe . Mr. Henry Powle . 252. 235. 231.

But for more certainty , the Petitioner humbly desires to refer himself to the Original Account taken by the Honourable Chair-man of the Committee .