§ Mr. Legh Keck informed the House, that the Select Committee appointed to try the merits of the Boroughbridge Election petition, had determined, "That it appeared to the said committee, that the merits of the petition did depend in part upon the right of election; and that therefore the said committee required the counsel for; the several parties to deliver to the clerk of the said committee, statements in writ- 903 ing of the right of election for which they respectively contended: That, in consequence thereof, the counsel for the petitioners delivered in a statement as follows: 'That the right of election is in 'the tenants occupying burgage houses or 'the sites of burgage houses, in Borough-'bridge, upon the roll or court call of ' the manor of Aldborough, such tenants 'being resident within the borough:' That the counsel for the sitting members, delivered in a statement, as follows: 'The ' right of election at Boroughbridge is in 'the borough men only: the borough men 'are men whose names have been duly 'and rightfully entered on the occurrence 'of a vacancy in the roll or book of the 'manor of Aldborough, and who have 'thereupon taken the oath of fealty for 'or in respect of certain ancient burgage 'houses or sites holden of that manor: a 'vacancy happens only on the death or 'voluntary resignation of a boroughman, 'or on his ceasing to reside in Borough 'bridge:' that, upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the petitioners the said committee have determined, that the right of election as set forth in the said statement is not the right of election for the borough of Boroughbridge, in the county of York: that, upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the sitting members, the said committee have determined, that the right of election, as set forth in the said statement, is hot the right of election for the said borough: that the said committee have determined, that the right of voting for the borough of Boroughbridge is in those persons whose names shall appear in the roll, or court call, of the manor of Aldborough, as tenants of burgage houses, or the sites of burgage houses, in Boroughbridge, and shall have been duly admitted thereon according to the custom of the manor, being resident within the said borough: that the said committee have determined, that Richard Spooner, esq., and Marmaduke Lawson, esq., are not duly elected burgesses to serve in this present parliament for the said borough: that George Mundy, esq., and Henry Dawkins, esq., were duly elected, and ought to have been returned, burgesses to serve in this present parliament for the said borough."
§ Ordered, that the deputy clerk of the Crown do attend to-morrow to amend the said Return.