Excerpt from A Perfect Copy Of All Summons Of The Nobility To The Great Councils And Parliaments Of This Realm, From The XLIX. Of King Henry The IIID. Until These Present Times: With Catalogues Of Such Noblemen As Have Been Summoned To Parliament in Right Of Their Wives, And Of Such Other Noblemen As Derive Their Titles Of Honour From The Heirs-Female From Whom They Are Descended As to the Perfons of whom the Houfe of Commons, in great Councils did antzently confifl, there are thofe, who to gain favour with. Thevulgar, have not fluce to aver, T hat every potty Freeholder of any Land whatfoever, was in times paji, afiaally a Member thereof and thereby [afid ently qualified to come and vote therein: and confeqnently, have endeavoured to li?/lll! Into their Heads that abfurd Opinion, to the end that the Supreme power in the Mul titude might be the better countenanced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.