[Footnote 718: This seems to have been the object of Southampton's tour through the constituencies of Surrey and Hampshire in March, 1539; with one of Gardiner's pocket-boroughs he did not meddle, because the lord chamberlain was the Bishop's steward there (_L. and P._, xiv., i., 520). There were some royal nominees in the House of Commons. In 1523 the members for Cumberland were nominated by the Crown (_ibid._, iii., 2931); at Calais the lord-deputy and council elected one of the two burgesses and the mayor and burgesses the other (_ibid._, x., 736). Calais and the Scottish Borders were of course exceptionally under Crown influence, but this curious practice may have been observed in some other cities and boroughs; in 1534, for instance, the King was to nominate to one of the two vacancies at Worcester (_ibid._, vii., 56).] [Footnote 719: _Ibid._, iv., App. 238.] [Footnote 720: _Official Return of Members of Parliament_, i., 370.] [Footnote 721: Occasionally there were divisions, _e.g._, in 1523 when the court party voted a subsidy of 2_s._ in the pound; but this was only half the sum demanded by Wolsey (Hall, pp. 656, 657, Ellis, _Orig. Letters_, I., i., 220, 221).]