The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ^ II. made Liverpool a free port, while. >-T. CEOIIGEs ^ LITERIOOL {p. 265). Henry III. constituted it a borough. A Parliament summoned at Westminsterin the reign of Edward I. was attended by two burgesses from Liverpool; andfrom the time of Edward III. the town seems to have sent members toParliament with commendable regularity, although there was but little for themto represent. Liverpool, however, had to be content with only two membersdown to the Reform Bill of 1867, lon
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ^ II. made Liverpool a free port, while. >-T. CEOIIGEs ^ LITERIOOL {p. 265). Henry III. constituted it a borough. A Parliament summoned at Westminsterin the reign of Edward I. was attended by two burgesses from Liverpool; andfrom the time of Edward III. the town seems to have sent members toParliament with commendable regularity, although there was but little for themto represent. Liverpool, however, had to be content with only two membersdown to the Reform Bill of 1867, long after she had made a name andreputation the world over. In 1867 the number was increased to three; andwhen, in 188-5, the Redistribution Scheme caine into force, Liverpool was strongenough to secm-e nine members, and is the only constituency in England whoseIrish voters are sufficiently numerous in any one division to return a memberafter their own heart, though, singular to say, the division which that memberrepresents is known as the Scotland division. 262 lilVERS OF GREAT TtnTTAryr. [Tm: Meksuy. Altlioufrli favoured, as avo liavo soc
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