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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
said the people to be eased from the cost of paying the Burgesses 
Left the Corporation to chose them on condition they payd y m out 
of y e town Stock. 
When the Healing Parliament was chosen 1659 60 w ch Eestored 
K. Charles n, the freemen and freeholders headed by m r Jonathan 
Sparky W. Jennens &c met under the Guild-hall at the same time 
y e Mayor and his Brethern mett in it, and claimd the Right of 
voting, w ch being denyed they chose W™ Morris esq!" then Governor 
of the Fort by comission from G. Monk, afterwards made a Baronet, 
& secretary of State, and Samuel Trelawny of Ham esq r — the Mayor 
&c chose Sarjeant Maynard their Recorder & Ed. Fowel esq? their 
Town-clark, who being Returned by the Mayor, were sitting 
members until the gentlemen chosen by y e freemen & freeholders, 
having petitioned the House of Comons were declared Rightly 
elected, & placed in the House. 
Upon the death of s r W Morrice. 1676. m r Jn° Spark & m r W. 
Jennens became Rivals for y e place. & at the Election a Pole was 
demanded, the Mayor called the freemen first, and m r Jennens w n 
they were poled gave up without poling y e freeholders this made 
them clamorous,- and when m r Spark went to Parliament he to 
secure the Rights of the freeholders, inquired Into the proceeding 
of the comitte and H. Comons on y e controversy abovesayd & found 
in their Journals w t followes. 
The report of the committee, brought up by Mr. Turner June 9, 1660, 
stated that "the Mayor and comonalty" had right of election, and not "the 
Mayor twelve Aldermen and twenty four burgesses." Mr. Henry Woollcombe 
notes in the margin : " This s d seem to determine, only that the Mayor Alder- 
men & 24 Burgesses have not any exclusive right of election, and not to 
exclude the Freeholders, since the question is not between the Freeholders 
and the Mayor and Commonalty." 
Notwithstanding that Resolve, the freeholders were allowed their 
votes on the next election of y* parleament, called k.ch.u. Long 
Parliament, w ch began soon after this debate : so they did also 
16[66] w n on the death of m r S. Trelawny, s r Gilbert Talbot was 
chosen, and so they did In chosing m r Spark the Last time, and 
In chosing s r Jn° Maynard, & s r W m two parliament following, 
viz, the two Last parliaments of K Charles the second. But In 
K. James 1 s time; "W Martin Arbitrarily chosen by the Mayor, and 
two Benches, & returned y e Lord Ranelagh. and m r B. Granvill: 
but on y e Revolution my Lord Torington then Admiral Herbert, 
