=Source.=--_Oldfield’s Representative History of Great Britain._
London, 1816.
(A) HORSHAM ELECTION PETITION.
Lord William Gordon and James Baillie, esq., and certain electors
in their interest, petitioned in 1790 against the return of Timothy
Shelley and Wilson Bradyl, esqrs. The petition was renewed the second
session. A committee to try this case met Feb. 16, 1792. The petitions
were the same in substance, stating, that the election for Horsham
was held June 19, 1790; that Drew Mitchell and John Rawlinson, the
baliffs, acted with gross injustice and partiality in favour of the
sitting members: that on a poll being demanded, they appointed the Duke
of Norfolk’s steward, Thomas Charles Medwin, and James Robertson, the
steward’s clerk, to be the poll-clerks, who rejected legal votes in
favour of the petitioners, and received illegal votes for the sitting
members, by which means they procured a colourable majority.