72 RECORDS OF OLD TIMES 



in standing up for the liberties of the people against 

 the arbitrary and unjustifiable tyranny of the House 

 of Commons. It may not be out of place to 

 mention that in many boroughs there was no 

 regular locality in or at which nominations took 

 place. I well remember seeing the last election 

 for Amersham, in 1832, when the two candidates, 

 Squire and Colonel Drake, stood on two very large 

 unhewn stones, outside the Market House, in the 

 public street, and were there proposed. At Ayles- 

 bury, up to 1802, the candidates were proposed on a 

 large tombstone in the churchyard ; after that year, 

 when the hundreds were added to the borough, the 

 nomination took place in the County Hall. At Old 

 Sarum and Grampound, inasmuch as there was but 

 one house in each of these boroughs, the members 

 were nominated and elected on a mound of earth 

 somewhere within the reputed parish boundaries. 



