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"Pocket boroughs", controlled by the crown or large landholders, and "rotten boroughs," whose populations had declined (the most notorious was Old Sarum , which had virtually ceased to exist) were amply represented. Yet large cities such as Manchester and Birmingham returned no members of their own. Out of a population of about 24,000,000 in the British Isles (including Ireland), only about 435,000 were qualified to vote.

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