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rotten borough 
British constituency dominated by a single proprietor.
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A real-life rotten borough was Old Sarum in Wiltshire, which contained seven voters.
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The average price of a seat in Parliament was £5000 for a so-called ' rotten borough.'
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Lord Verney, for a seat in the privy council, was induced to give him a " rotten borough."
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The same rotten borough vote took Gordon Brown to No 10: failing to fight for it did him no good.
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In 1809 he became of age, and entered parliament for a rotten borough openly bought for him by his father.
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Thereafter, it was storekeeper Lincoln's pocket borough; its ruffians were his body-guard.
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The Flats, mind you; our own little pocket borough of the Flats!
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O'Donnell says it probably originated in that Banagher was a pocket borough notorious for its parliamentary corruption.
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Sir Robert Peel began in the pocket borough of Cashel in 1809, a coming-of-age present from his mill-owning father.
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Fox first entered Parliament for the pocket borough of Midhurst, and Sir George Trevelyan has described how it took place.
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You tell the people that it is as unjust to disfranchise a great lord's nomination borough as to confiscate his estate.
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Such towns were called "rotten boroughs," "pocket boroughs," " nomination boroughs."
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Under the old parliamentary system, he had the greatest number of nomination boroughs possessed by any Whig noble.
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Take any one of those nomination boroughs, the patrons of which have conscientiously endeavoured to send fit men into this House.