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Commons contained seventy members, nominated 

 by thirty-five rotten boroughs in which there 

 were no electors, and ninety members nominated 

 by forty-six boroughs, containing less than fifty 

 electors. 



The borough of Old Sarum was a mere hillock 

 belonging to Lord Canalford ; Gatton and S. Michael 

 had only seven electors ; the borough of Dumwich 

 had been long since submerged by the encroach- 

 ment of the sea; Beeralston, belonging to Lord 

 Beverley, consisted of one house, and Castlerising of 

 two. In the county of Bute there were twenty- 

 one electors, only one of whom was a resident and 

 who nominated himself. 



The preservation of this system of representation 

 which had long ceased to be adequate, was eminently 

 favourable to the few persons who benefited by it, 

 and they vigorously resisted the passing of the 

 Eeform Bill. 



(c) After the provincial states of Normandy and 

 the Dauphiny had been suppressed, the state func- 

 tionaries retained their titles and emoluments. 



In the Dauphiny the representative institutions 

 ceased to be functional in 1627, but at the close of 

 the eighteenth century the Bishop of Grenoble con- 

 tinued to receive 6000 livres per annum as primate 

 of the dominion. Two barons, delegates of the 

 nobility, shared a similar salary, and the Syndic 

 of the province and two secretaries received lesser 

 emoluments from the province which continued 



