of twelve calendar months; and that the place of your abode is at

in

and that you have not polled at this election.

So help you God.

No. XXII.

The Elector's Oath, to be taken by 2 G. 2. c. 24. f. I.

IA. B. do fwear [or, being one of the people called Quakers, 1 A. B. do folemnly affirm] I have not received, or had by myself, or any perfon whatfoever in truft for me, or for my ufe and benefit, directly or indirectly, any fum or fums of money, office, place, or employment, gift or reward, or any promise or fecurity for any money, office, employment, or gift, in order to give my vote at this election; and that I have not before been polled at this election.

No. XXIII.

The Freeholder's Oath, appointed by 18 G. 2. c. 18. f. 1.

YOU fhall fwear [or, being one of the people called Quakers, you shall folemnly affirm], That you are a treeholder in the county

of

of

and have a freehold eftate,

in the

confifting of [Specifying the nature of fuch freehold eftate, whether messuage, land, rent, tithe, or what else; and if fuch freebold eftate confifts in messuages, lands, or tithes, then fpecifying in whofe occupation the fame are; and if in rents, then specifying the names of the owners or poffeffors of the lands or tenements out of which fuch rent is iffuing, or of some or one of them] lying or being at county of of the clear yearly value of forty fhillings, over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the fame; and that you have been in the actual poffeffion or receipt of the rents and profits thereof, for your own use, above twelve calendar months, or that the fame came to you within the time aforefaid, by defcent, marriage, marriage-fettlement, devife, or promotion to a benefice in a church, or by promotion to an office; and that fuch freehold estate has not been granted or made to you fraudulently, on purpose to qualify you to give your vote; and that the place of your abode is and that you are twenty-one years of age, as you believe; and that you have not been polled before at this election.

at

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No. XXIV..

The Freeholder's Oath for Cities and Towns, appointed by 19 G. 2. c. 28. f. 1.

YOU fhall fwear [or, being a Quaker, you fhall folemnly affirm, That you have a freehold eftate, confifting of

[Specifying the nature of such freehold eftate, whether meffuage, land, rent, tithe, or what elfe; and if fuch freehold estate confifts in mesfuages, lands or tithes, then specifying in whose occupation the fame are; and if rent, then fpecifying the names of the owners or poffeffors of the lands or tenements out of which such rent is iffuing, or of fome or one of them] lying or being in the city and county [or town and county, as the fame may be] of

of the clear yearly value of forty fhillings, over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in refpect of the fame; and that you have been in the actual poffeffion or receipt of the rents and profits thereof, for your own ufe, above twelve calendar months; or that the fame came to you within the time aforefaid, by defcent, marriage, marriage fettlement, devife, or promotion to a benefice in a church, or by promotion to an office; and that fuch freehold eftate has not been granted or made to you fraudulently, on purpofe to qualify you to give your vote; and that the place of your abode, is at and that you are twenty-one years of age; as you believe; and that you have not been polled before at this election.

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No. XXV.

Oath to be taken by a Voter previous to polling, if required by any Candidate or any Voter in any Borough or City.

I

DO fwear [or, being a Quaker, do affirm], That my name is A. B.; and that I am [Specifying the addition, profeffion, or trade of fuch perfon]; and that the place of my abode is at in the county [and if it is a town confifting of more streets than one, fpecifying what street]; and that I have not before polled at this election; and that I verily believe myself to be of the full age of twenty-one years.

of

No. XXVI.

Writ for new Election of one Citizen for the City of Westminster.

GEORGE the Third, by the grace of God,

of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.-To our sheriff of the county of M. greeting. Whereas, Sir P. W, Knight of the most honourable Order of the Bath, was lately chosen one of the citizens for the city of W. in your county, for our present Parliament, fummoned to be holden at our city of W. the

.

day

of

year of our

reign, and from thence by our feveral writs prorogued to and until the

day

of in the fame year, on which day our faid Parliament was begun and held, and from thence by feveral adjournments and prorogations was adjourned and prorogued

unto

the

day of

and there now holden: And whereas the faid Sir P. W. being fo chofen a citizen for the faid city as aforefaid, is fince dead, as, by a letter of our right trufty and well-beloved counsellor, Sir Speaker of our Lower House of Parliament, more fully and plainly appears; by means whereof our subjects of the faid city are deprived of one citizen to treat for the benefit of the fame city in our faid Parliament: Nevertheless, We being unwilling that the commonalty of our kingdom in our faid Parliament affembled, to treat of business concerning Us, the state and defence of our kingdom and the Church, from the aforefaid cause should be diminished. or leffened, whereby thofe affairs may not have a due end, We command you, that, in the place of Sir P. W. within the city aforefaid, one other fit and difcreet citizen of the aforefaid city (proclamation being first made of the premises, and of the day and place), freely and indifferently, by those who shall be prefent at the proclamation, according to the form of the ftatute in that cafe made and provided, you caufe to be elected; and the name of fuch citizen (whether, at the said election, he shall be present or absent) to be inferted in certain indentures to be thereupon made between you and them, who fhall be prefent at

fuch