You tell the people that it is as unjust to disfranchise a great lord's nomination borough as to confiscate his estate.

Such towns were called "rotten boroughs," "pocket boroughs," " nomination boroughs."

Under the old parliamentary system, he had the greatest number of nomination boroughs possessed by any Whig noble.

Take any one of those nomination boroughs, the patrons of which have conscientiously endeavoured to send fit men into this House.