§ Mr. C. Wood,chairman of the committee appointed to try and determine the merits of the petition complaining of an undue return for the borough of Lewes, brought up the report of the said committee.
The committee reported,—
That Mr. Summers Harford is not duly elected a burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the borough of Lewes.That the Hon. Henry Fitzroy is duly elected, and ought to have been returned a burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the said borough of Lewes.That the petition of Edward Monk and Gabriel Eccles does not appear to the committee to be frivolous or vexatious.That the opposition to the said petition does not appear to the committee to be frivolous or vexatious.That the committee have altered the poll taken at such election by striking off the names of W. Sales, W. Ellis, Jeremiah Reed, George 931 Stanford, John Stanford, Charles Stanford, W. Knee, and Thomas Gates."