| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In England, besides, a lease for life of forty shillings a year value is a freehold, and entitles the lessee to vote for a member of parliament; and as a great part of the yeomanry have freeholds of this kind, the whole order becomes respectable to their landlords on account of the political consideration which this gives them.*24 There is, I believe, no-where in Europe, except in England, any ins
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