forty-shilling

His claim was met with scepticism, and Wren offered a forty-shilling book as a prize for the correct proof within a two-month limit.

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In both England and Ireland at that time a forty-shilling freehold gave a vote.

Is Ulster Right? Anonymous

Leaving out the "_legitimate weight_" of landed proprietors, as exercised through the forty-shilling freeholders, the above statement, besides being a remarkable one from such a cautious Minister, is not far from being correct.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

Immediately the landlords began to utter bitter complaints of surplus population; they began to ventilate their grievances through the English and Irish press, saying that their land was overrun by cottiers and squatters -- the main cause of all this being kept in the background, namely, the immense and continuous increase of forty-shilling freeholders, by themselves, and for their own purposes.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

To secure and extend this influence, the manufacture of forty-shilling freeholders went on rapidly, and to an enormous extent.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

Association, the forty-shilling freeholders broke away from landlord influence in the great General Election of 1826, and supported the candidates who promised to vote for Catholic Emancipation, in spite of every threat.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

T. BEAHAN, Arch. [56] Forty-shilling freeholders in Ireland and forty-shilling freeholders in England were quite different classes.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

Even in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the number of forty-shilling freeholders was small.

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

In the counties the forty-shilling freehold franchise, with some limitations, was retained; but the voting privilege was extended to all leaseholders and copyholders of land renting for as much as £10

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

Further, the franchise being raised to ten pounds, the forty-shilling freeholders were disfranchised; and the Act not being retrospective O'Connell on coming to take his seat was tendered the old oath, which he refused and then had to seek re-election for

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913