[857] Id., fo. 150.
[858] Stat. 48 & 49 Vict., c. 23, which prescribed that after the end of the Parliament then existing the City should return two members and no more.
[859] An exception appears to have been made in 1352, when a commoner was returned with an alderman.—Letter Book F, fo. 215.
[860] Two instances of the kind are recorded, one in 1509 and another in 1534.—See Repertory 2, fo. 77. Letter Book M, fo. 166b. Repertory 9, fo. 79b. On the other hand, there are cases recorded where members of Parliament for constituencies other than the City, having been elected aldermen of the City, have claimed exemption from service owing to their privilege as members.—Repertory 60, fos. 199b, 211b, 245b. Repertory 95, fo. 81.
[861] Repertory 2, fos. 75b, 77, 125b. Letter Book M, fos. 166b, 186.
[862] Hence the name "Hustings" as applied to Parliamentary elections at the present day.
[863] Repertory 6, fo. 20b. Letter Book N, fo. 222.
[864] Letter Book O, fo. 157.
[865] As early as 1539 we find the citizens "in their grand livery" summoned for a Parliamentary election (Repertory 10, fo. 85b); usually it was the "commons" who were summoned.
[866] Vol. i, pp. 273, 274.