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1819 Nov. 9. Benthams Radical
1819 Nov. 9.

Benthams Radical

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§.9 Election Districts

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{It may be matter of curiosity

It may help to render our conceptions of the business somewhat the clearer, to observe what in England and Scotland will be, upon an average the number of Parishes in a District: of Parishes or rather of Parishes and Sub-Parishes taken together: since for the purpose of referal Maps where the Parishes are so large as to be already divided into Sub Parishes called Tythings or Townships, there will be as much reason for putting each of those Townships upon a footing with Parishes as in other cases there is for putting the small Parishes on a footing with the large ones. So likewise to see the number of squares upon an average included in a Parish or Sub Parish

N o of Seats

Divide by the number the number[?] of the Parishes and Sub Parishes in Great Britain, namely 25[?].}
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