Henry VI (r. 1422 – 1461; 1470 – 1471) lends his assent to the Franchise Act, requiring a freehold (property ownership) that generates forty shillings (two pounds of silver) of annual income, for the right of suffrage.
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Winston Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples, four volumes, (New York: Dorset Press, 1956-58), 1:431.
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