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 Election, theſe Arduous and Weighty Affairs of the Kingdom ſhould in any wiſe remain Infecta, or be left Undone. This is contained in the preſent Writ of Elections directed to every Sheriff of a County at every Election of Parliament men.

But that is not my preſent Buſineſs, for I am in a further Search after the Annual or rather the Anniverſary Folkmote.

E fore I proceed any further I muſt clear one Point. And that is, that we find the Author and Founder of our Yearly Folkmote mentioned in the Laws of Edward the Confeſſor, (which were Recited and Confirmed by K. William the Firſt) under the Title De Greve, Chap. 35. which may poſſibly leave a Suſpicion that this Yearly Folkmote of the Kalends of May was a Greve’s Court. Now what Court ſhould this be, belonging to a Greve, or any Count or Viſcount, or Preſident whatſoever, for Greve is an Ambiguous Word? It is not a