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A real-life rottenborough 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 ' rottenborough.'
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Lord Verney, for a seat in the privy council, was induced to give him a " rottenborough."
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The same rottenborough 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 rottenborough openly bought for him by his father.
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You tell the people that it is as unjust to disfranchise a great lord's nominationborough as to confiscate his estate.
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Such towns were called "rotten boroughs," "pocket boroughs," " nominationboroughs."
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Under the old parliamentary system, he had the greatest number of nominationboroughs possessed by any Whig noble.
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Take any one of those nominationboroughs, the patrons of which have conscientiously endeavoured to send fit men into this House.
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Thereafter, it was storekeeper Lincoln's pocketborough; its ruffians were his body-guard.
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The Flats, mind you; our own little pocketborough of the Flats!
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O'Donnell says it probably originated in that Banagher was a pocketborough notorious for its parliamentary corruption.
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Sir Robert Peel began in the pocketborough of Cashel in 1809, a coming-of-age present from his mill-owning father.
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Fox first entered Parliament for the pocketborough of Midhurst, and Sir George Trevelyan has described how it took place.
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Too often a political office was granted from a pocketborough in which a restricted electorate could be bought at a trifling expense.
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Let 'em quash every pocketborough to-morrow, and bring in every mushroom town in the kingdom-they'llonly increase the expense of getting into Parliament.
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Tillietudlem was no poor pocketborough to be disposed of, this way or that way, according to the caprice or venal call of some aristocrat.
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Saint Cuthman and his mother-Steyning'sarchitecture-Steyning'swise passiveness-Bramber castle-A corrupt pocketborough-A Taxidermist-humorist-Joseph Poorgrass in Sussex-The widow of Beeding and the Romney-A digression on curio-hunting
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Such towns were called "rotten boroughs," " pocketboroughs," "nomination boroughs."
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Preston was often represented in Parliament by a Stanley, and was looked upon as a PocketBorough.
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In spite of pocketboroughs, family influence, and flagrant corruption, the reformers came back to Parliament with their majority increased to fully one hundred.