[Footnote 711: _L. and P._, i., 792, vii., 1178, where mention is made of "secret labour" among the freeholders of Warwickshire for the bye-election on Sir E. Ferrers' death in 1534; and x., 1063, where there is described a hotly contested election between the candidate of the gentry of Shropshire and the candidate of the townsfolk of Shrewsbury.] [Footnote 712: _Acts of the Privy Council_, 1547-50, pp. 516, 518, 519; _England under Protector Somerset_, pp. 71, 72.] [Footnote 713: _Narratives of the Reformation_, Camden Soc., pp. 295, 296.] [Footnote 714: _Cf._ Duchess of Norfolk's letter to John Paston, 8th June, 1455 (_Paston Letters_, ed. 1900, i., 337), and in 1586 Sir Henry Bagnal asked the Earl of Rutland if he had a seat to spare in Parliament as Bagnal was anxious "for his learning's sake to be made a Parliament man" (_D.N.B._, Suppl., i., 96).] [Footnote 715: _L. and P._, xiv., 645; _cf._ Hallam, 1884, iii., 44-45.] [Footnote 716: Foxe, ed. Townsend, vi., 54. There are some illustrations and general remarks on Henry's relations with Parliament in Porritt's _Unreformed House of Commons_, 2 vols., 1903.] [Footnote 717: At Reigate, says the Duke, "I doubt whether any burgesses be there or not" (_L. and P._, x., 816); and apparently there were none at Gatton.]