The boroughs, as will appear later, did not really stand for numbers, but the counties did certainly represent property, and that in spite of the Chandos Clause which admitted fifty-pound leaseholders and was resisted by the authors of the bill.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
The franchise, therefore, is now substantially uniform throughout the United Kingdom, except that certain owners and leaseholders have a right to vote in counties, and that in some old towns the freemen still possess the suffrage.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
These "lords" were the official heads of numerous tenants and leaseholders who were settled on their large estates.
"England in America, 1580-1652"
Lyon Gardiner Tyler