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rotten borough
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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.
        The Guardian
        2
        The average price of a seat in Parliament was £5000 for a so-called ' rotten borough.'
        Queen Victoria
        3
        Lord Verney, for a seat in the privy council, was induced to give him a " rotten borough."
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen
        4
        The same rotten borough vote took Gordon Brown to No 10: failing to fight for it did him no good.
        The Guardian
        5
        In 1809 he became of age, and entered parliament for a rotten borough openly bought for him by his father.
        The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
        1
        Thereafter, it was storekeeper Lincoln's pocket borough; its ruffians were his body-guard.
        Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
        2
        The Flats, mind you; our own little pocket borough of the Flats!
        The Henchman
        3
        O'Donnell says it probably originated in that Banagher was a pocket borough notorious for its parliamentary corruption.
        The Irish Times
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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.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Fox first entered Parliament for the pocket borough of Midhurst, and Sir George Trevelyan has described how it took place.
        The Rise of the Democracy
        1
        You tell the people that it is as unjust to disfranchise a great lord's nomination borough as to confiscate his estate.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
        2
        Such towns were called "rotten boroughs," "pocket boroughs," " nomination boroughs."
        A Brief History of the United States
        3
        Under the old parliamentary system, he had the greatest number of nomination boroughs possessed by any Whig noble.
        Endymion
        4
        Take any one of those nomination boroughs, the patrons of which have conscientiously endeavoured to send fit men into this House.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
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