Talk:Unreformed House of Commons

message: Might be interesting to have a table showing numbers of MP per county (including burgesses) and the total estimated electorate and estimated population for those constituencies.  Morwen - Talk 09:03, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Excellent article

message: The article implies that Monmouthshire had representation before 1536, as one of the 40 traditional counties of England.  This is not true.  It was created and annexed to the Kingdom of England by the same instrument that annexed the other 12 Welsh counties, and the Monmouthshire boroughs had the same arrangement regarding shared seats as the other Welsh boroughs did.  Morwen - Talk 14:40, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure it does imply that, given that the table is in a section which lists the electorate as it was in 1800.  Your note 'Monmouthshire is included here as part of England, rather than Wales' seems adequate. Owain 15:21, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm talking about the prose, not the table, in particular the first paragraph ofUnreformed_House_of_Commons#County_members.  Morwen - Talk 15:25, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Monmouthshire

message: Apparently County Durham didn't send members until after the restoration, either.  Because it was a county palatine.  Lancashire and Cornwall nontheless did.  Morwen - Talk 20:58, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Durham

message: Is the material here really right?  Looking at the House of Commons lists on Leigh Rayment's site , it looks like there were only a small number of groups of boroughs, and a number of individual borough seats appear to have existed - Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, and so forth...anyone know for sure? john k 03:26, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish Boroughs 

message: In the section on English Boroughs, it gives the number for each type.  Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to line up properly with the actual list.  As far as I can gather, only the number for Householder Boroughs is apparently correct at 12.  The text gives 92 freemen boroughs, but I could only count up to 83 in the chart.  It gives 37 Scot and lot boroughs, but I count 45.  It gives 27 corporation boroughs, but I count only 25.  It gives 29 Burgage Boroughs, but I count only 27.  And it gives 6 Freeholder boroughs, but I count 8.  What's the deal? john k 07:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers don't add up, Anglicans

message: Does anyone know the vote totals for pre-reform act Britain? BillMasen (talk) 17:08, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  vote totals? 

message: Are you sure this article is correct in saying that women did not have the franchise before 1832? I've seen it said elsewhere that technically before 1832 there was no restriction of the county franchise to men. So a woman who in her own right met the county property qualification did have a vote, but the riotous way elections were conducted meant that none of them ever tried their luck.
--Browne-Windsor (talk) 08:20, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  women? 

message: Calais was represented in the House of Commons for a time; I believe for several of the 16th-century parliaments?  The article should say something about that.  81.139.200.134 (talk) 18:06, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: See Calais (constituency).  — ras52 (talk) 13:04, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Calais

message: Was a county corporate a county constituency or a borough constituency? In the Parliament of Ireland they were called "county boroughs", which I guess is a type of borough. jnestorius(talk) 15:34, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: My semi-informed guess is that they were borough constituencies (although that's an anachronistic term).  MPs for counties, who were elected at a county court, were formally known as a "Knight of the Shire".  Counties corporate weren't shire counties, so....  Andrew Gwilliam (talk) 10:08, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The counties corporate were rather like the dozens of "county boroughs" created by the Local Government Act 1888 for local government purposes. There was no automatic connection with parliamentary representation, although the counties corporate probably did all get representation long before the Commons was reformed. To take two examples, Carmarthen was a parliamentary borough before it was a county corporate, whereas Haverfordwest was a county corporate before it gained its own representation in parliament as a borough. Moonraker (talk) 07:20, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Counties corporate

message: While this is an important concept, the article linked to is about the concept of a post-nuclear apocolypse continuity of government, not that envisioned in this context.  I suggest therefore that the term in this article be delinked, but am more interested in collegiality than being bold.  75.252.119.134 (talk) 04:15, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Continuity of government