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IN ENGLAND. 



40 Counties, which send up to parliament . . 80 knights. 

 25 Cities (Ely none, London four) .... 50 citizens. 



167 Boroughs, two each 334 burgesses. 



5 Boroughs (Abingdon, Banbury, Bewd-1 



ley, Higham-Ferrers, and Monmouth) J- 5 burgesses. 



one each J 



2 Universities 4 representatives. ' 



8 Cinque ports (Hastings, Dover, Sand-} 

 wich, Romney, Hithe, and their three deY . - , 

 pendents, Rye, Winchelsea, and Seaford)f 

 two each J 



WALES. 



12 Counties 12 knights. 



12 Boroughs (Pembroke two, Merioneth? 12 burgesses, 

 none) one each $ 



SCOTLAND. 



S3 Shires .30 knights. 



37 Cities and Boroughs 15 burgesses. 



IRELAND. 



32 Counties 64 knights. 



36 Cities and Boroughs 36 citizens and 



burgesses. 



Total 658 



Besides the fifty-two counties into which England and Wales are 

 divided, there are counties corporate, consisting of certain districts, 

 to which the liberties and jurisdictions peculiar to a county have been 

 granted by royal charter. Thus the city of London is a county dis- 

 tinct from Middlesex ; the. cities of York, Chester, Bristol, Exeter, 

 Norwich, Worcester, and the towns of Kingston-upon-Hull and 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, are counties of themselves, distinct from those 

 in which they lie. The same may be said of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 

 which lies in Scotland, and has within its jurisdiction a small territo- 

 ry of two miles on the north side of the river. 



Under the name of a town, boroughs and cities are contained ; for 

 every borough or city is a town, though every town is not a borough 

 or city. A borough is so called, because it sends up burgesses to 

 parliament ; and this makes the difference between a village or town, 

 and a borough. Some boroughs are corporate, and some not corpo- 

 rate, and though decayed, as old Sarum, they still send burgesses to 

 parliament. A city is a corporate borough, that has, or has had, a 

 bishop ; for if the bishopric be dissolved, yet the city remains. To 

 have suburbs, proves it to be a city. Some cities are also counties, 

 as before mentioned. 



Face of the country... .No nation in the world can equal the cul- 

 tivated parts of England in beautiful scenes. The variety of high- 

 lands and low-lands, the former gently swelling, and both of them 

 forming the most luxuriant prospects, the corn and meadow grounds, 

 the intermixtures of enclosures and plantation, the noble seats, com- 



