Excerpt from The Unreformed House of Commons, Vol. 1: Parliamentary Representation Before 1832 Further, it has been my purpose to trace the changing relations which from the thirteenth century to the nineteenth existed be tween electors and elected; the incoming of the system under which so many members were at least for a century and a half prior to 1832 chosen to the House of Commons by patrons; to show the relations which existed between members so chosen and the men who sent them into the House of Commons; and how it was that in 1832 the representative systems of England and \vales, Scotland, and Ireland were so greatly in need of a touch of the supreme authority to set them right, to restore the representation to something like the basis on which it had stood in the early centuries of Parliament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.