Forty-shilling freeholders were those who had the parliamentary franchise to vote by virtue of possessing freehold property, or lands held directly of...

must have earnings for 40 quarters (equivalent to 10 years). Forty-shilling freeholders, a nickname, given to those who qualified for a franchise, the...

that lead to chaos and ultimately corruption. Anarcho-capitalism Forty-shilling freeholders Right-libertarianism Harper, Douglas (November 2001). ""Timocracy"...

same day as the relief bill, the act disenfranchised Ireland's Forty Shilling Freeholders, by raising the property threshold for the county vote to the...

requirements for paying tax remained in five states. Timocracy Forty-shilling freeholders Plutocracy Walker, Graham. A History of the Ulster Unionist Party:...

be styled knight or esquire or gentleman, and who, not being a forty-shilling freeholder was not a yeoman, was described as husbandman." It has also been...

intervals to the Parliament of England since 1265. From 1432 only forty-shilling freeholders held the parliamentary franchise. The franchise for the Parliament...

process simultaneously disenfranchised the small tenants, known as 'forty shilling freeholders', who were mainly Catholics. Daniel O'Connell, who had led the...

ten pounds. This eliminated the middling tenantry (the Irish "forty-shilling freeholders") who had risked much in defying their landlords on O'Connell's...

in different types of constituency; in county constituencies forty shilling freeholders (i.e. landowners) could vote, while in boroughs the franchise...