' county-court In most other franchises, and In A modern book asserts, that wages were paid In

many cities erected Into distinct counties, the same some Cornish boroughs as late as th^ elgbteratli

privilege of voting for knights of tbe shire Is prac« century. Lyson's Cornwall, preface, p. xxxll ; but

tically exercised ; but whether this has not proceeded tbe passage quoted lu proof of thti H not fHnecUe

«s much from tbe tendency of returning officers and enoagb to support m unlikely a fact,

of parliament to favour tbe right of election In {$) 3 Prynne, p. 165.
doubtful cases, as fh>m the merits of their preten- jo) 4 Prynne, p. 8lT.
sigos, may be a question.
