The town clerk and the borough surveyor reinforced these points in their statements to the inquiry.
Compared to the borough's population, few aged in the fifties took part.
They have one son who now lives in an adjoining borough.
The registration law of successive occupation stipulated that those electors who moved only within a parliamentary borough would not be disqualified by the move.
One point of continuity was the cities and boroughs.
This amounts to about 75 per cent of the personnel of over one half the nation's borough corporations.
The latter may explain why the research finds 'no positive correlation between tax levels and service quality', in the boroughs (p. 384).
And, as a castle town and borough, and a market centre with a reasonably fertile hinterland, the town had attracted settlers from an early date.
