METHOD AND RULE OF PROCEEDING UPON ALL ELECTIONS, POLLS AND SCRUTINIES, AT COMMON HALLS AND WARDMOTES, WITHIN THE City of London. BY SIR WILLIAM MILDMAY, BART. WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES ON WARDMOTE ELECTIONS; AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE CITY ELECTORAL FRANCHISES; AND OF THE Incorporated Mysteries WITH THEIR LIVERYMEN, ELECTORS OF LONDON. BY HENRY KENT S. CAUSTON, CITIZEN AND SKINNER OF LONDON. HENRY KENT CAUSTON AND CO., BIRCHIN LANE. MDCCCXLI. TO HIS CONFRÈRES, LIVERYMEN OF THE CHARTERED MYSTERIES, THIS SLIGHT SKETCH, FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF LONDON, (PREFIXED, BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION, TO THE TREATISE of SIR WILLIAM MILDMAY ON CITY ELECTIONS), IS WITH GREAT RESPECT INSCRIBED, BY THEIR FAITHFUL AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE EDITOR. THE EDITOR TO HIS READERS. WHEN John Gilpin started for Edmonton, his intention was to have stopped at the Bell,neither his purpose nor will carrying him further. In the latter particular, however, the parallel ceases to exist; for the Editor honestly confesses his earnest desire for a much longer journey. It is necessary, however, to account for some instances of irregularity of arrangement, and repetition of facts, where a more digested condensation would preferably have been adopted-that his original purpose was merely the republication of Sir WILLIAM MILDMAY'S scarce Treatise on City Elections, with some remarks on the discrepancies of opinion and practice still existing, in administering the franchise within the Wards. Reference to the general and particular |