Could be Freeholders 61 Could act as Femes Soles when 61 married Could hold by Military Tenure 62 Paid and received Homage 63 Could present to Churches 63 Could hold Motes and attend 64 Motes Could be Suitors at County 64 Courts, Pares, Judges or Jury Could elect Knights of the 67 Shire Could elect Members of Private 69 Boroughs VI. FREEWOMEN 77 Could be Members of Guilds 79 Could have Guilds of their own 83 Were free of the City of 84 London Were free in other Boroughs 86 Could be Members of 90 Corporation Could vote for Members of 94 Parliament VII. THE LONG EBB 99 The Errors of Sir Edward Coke 99 A Believer in Coke’s Views 107 Protesting Women 112 Anne Clifford 112 Mary Astell’s Protest 124 Mary Wolstonecroft Godwin 127 Legal Cases decided in their 128 favour The Reform Bill of 1832 136 The Reform Bill of 1867 139 Chorlton _v._ Lings 140 VIII. THE TURN OF THE TIDE 146 Something has been done 147 Municipal Franchise—School 148 Boards Married Women’s Property Acts 149 Lady Sandhurst’s Case 150 What a Woman can do 152 Women and the Universities 155 IX. OTHER WOMEN 159 The Test of Civilisation 162 Labour the basis of Property 165 The Unrecorded Increment of 166 Women’s Labour The Duality of Humanity 176 The Woman God’s Fellow-worker 178 APPENDIX Eldest Daughters 180 The Countess Lucy 180 Women’s Service 180