Excerpt from A List of the Knights and Burgesses Who Have Represented the County and City of Durham in Parliament The petition concludes with a desire that the magistrates would send proper persons to solicit Parliament. On the petition being read, the bishop required of the grand jury who penned the same, and immediately entered his protestation against it. On the Bench, * however, the question was carried by a majority of eleven to five. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.