A biographical history of Guy's Hospital / by Samuel Wilks and G.T. Bettany.

  • Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.
Date:
1892
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Credit: A biographical history of Guy's Hospital / by Samuel Wilks and G.T. Bettany. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is ordered that Mr. Thomas Guy, our iiicomparahle howfactor, have free libert}' to erect a brick wall in the street in Gnngate on the west side of the Almshouses he hath there built. The election to the second Parliament of William and Mar}, which assembled on March 20th, 1690, was the first in which Thomas Guy sought the suffrages of the burgesses of Tamworth, but he was defeated by Sir Henry Gough, Bart., and Michael Biddulph, Esq. On March 24th his ])etiti()n was read in the Commons, complaining that although he had the majority of legal votes, the bailitf, by undue practices, had returned Guugh and Bidduljih. The petition was referred to the Committee of Elections, but with no satisfactory result to Guy. In the third Parliament of William, November 1695 to July 1698, Guy was more successful, being returned with 8ir Henry Gough apparently without opposition. A letter from Dr. G. Smalridge, afterwards Bishop of Bristol, dated from Oxford on October 28th, 1696, written to his pupil Walter Gough, son of Sir Henry, contains an inquiry whether Lord Weymouth has sufficient influence at Tamworth to keep Guy out at the next election.* In the next (fourth) Parliament, which only lasted from August 24th, 1698, to December 19th, 1700, there was a fiercely-contested election, in which Guy obtained 221, .John Chetwynd, Esq., 193, and Sir Henry Gough 184 votes. The latter petitioned against the return, on the ground tliat voters not duly qualified had been admitted to poll. The Committee of Elections reported on iMarch 17th, 1699, unseating Mr. Chetwynd and seating Sir Henry Gough, on the ground that duly qualified freeholders had been improperly excluded from the poll. * Xicliols, Literary Illustrations, iii,, 253.