Note 341b — HISTORY OF LYNN. PART III.

It has been suggested that some vestiges of our ancient vassalage is discoverable still in the abject state of the bulk of those miscalled freemen, nine out of ten of whom, perhaps, have no will of their own in the choice of representatives, but implicitly act under the direction of the modern masters of the town.—The author, however, does not mean to give the name of slave-holders to the two families that now nominate, appoint, return, or send our members to parliament.