Sir JOHN PAKINGTON's Case at Droytwich.  
KING John granted to the Burgesses of Droytwich, and their Heirs, the Salt-springs there, with divers privileges and franchises, rendering the yearly fee farm rend of 100 l. Sterling, and the Salt water hath ever since been divided into four hundred and four Shares called Bulleries, which Bulleries have ever been bought, Sold and Descended as other inheritances at the Common Law,  
The grantees of King John and their Heirs have long since aliened and sold their whole inheritance in the Salt-springs to several Persons, who at this day stand seized in fee of the same and pay their proportions of the fee farm Rend reserved on the first grant: And from the time of King john's grant to the Reign of Queen Mary the first, the Inheritors of the Salt-springs were deemed Burgesses of Droytwich, and whoever sold his Inheritance ceased to be a Burgess.  
Queen Marry Incorporated the Burgesses of Droytwich, by the name of Bailiffs and Burgesses, and granted them divers franchises as a Corporation▪ and confirmed King John's grant, but takes no farther notice of the Salt-springs, Nor appoints any select number, to govern the said Burrough or Saltworks, or any power to Elect new Burgesses, or to exclude any who in Right of their Estates ought to act as Burgesses.  
But of Late years the greatest part of those ancient Inheritances coming into the hands of Gentlemen of Quality, and persons who lived remote, the Bailiffs and Burgesses inhabiting in the Corporation, taking advantage thereof, set up several contrivances whereby they assumed to themselves, not only the Governing and taxing the Saltworks at pleasure, but of excluding the greater number of the inheritors (by a single negative voice) from acting as Burgesses of the said Burrough, either in giving their votes in Electing their Representatives in Parliament, or Governing their own Estates. and at the same time admitting mere strangers into the Corporation to strengthen their own party, by which undue practices in less than twenty years, they imposed above twenty thousand pounds, upon the Inheritors Estates in the Salt-spring without their consents, wherefore for prevention of the like oppressions for the future, the Principal Proprietors did obtain an Act of Parliament in the first Sessions of their present Majesty's Reign, but did not then at all insist on their Right of Electing their Representatives in Parliament.  
That the Inheritors of the Salt Springs are the undoubted Burgesses of Droytwich will appear.  
I. The Fee-farm Rend on the first Grant is reserved from the Burgesses of Droytwich, and to this day charged on, and paid by the Inheritors of the Salt-Springs.  
II. The Burrow of Droytwich sent Members to Parliament long before the present Corporation (which had its beginning but from the first year of Queen Mary) as appears by Records in the Tower.  
III. By divers Ancient Orders and By-laws of the said Burrough made, etc.  

March the 6th. 1689. Droytwich Election.  For Sir John Pakington, Baronet. For Philip Foley, Esquire.  Bul. Pts.  Bull. Pts. P. Crn. Gilbert Coventrye, Esquire. 0 2 Mr. Edward Davies 2 0 0 Mr. John Newport 0 1 Mr. Edw. Lench Pepper corn Mr. Tho. Rastell 9 3 Mr. John Newport, Junior pr. c. John Winford, Esquire 3 0 Geo. Lench, Barber pr. c. Mr. Edw. Rastell 1 0 Mr. Edw. Butler, Senior pr. c. Mr. Tho. Lench 0 1 Mr. Arnald Burgill 0 1  Mr. Nicholas Harris 0 1 Geo. Harrison, Labourer 0 p.  Mr. Francis Hill 0 2 Sir Walter Kircum Blount 20 1 0 Mr. Edward Phillips 3 1 Mr. Henry Hodges 4 0 0 Mr. John Sparrey 0 1 Mr. Burgbill Conard 0 p.  Mr. Tho. Norbury 0 1 Mr. Edward Clifford 0 p.  Mr. John Phillips 0 1 Mr. Weinter Harris 0 1 0 Mr. John Stone 3 1 Mr. Ed. Butler, Jun. 0 p.  Mr. Henry Johnson 5 3 Mr. Ed. Wheeler 5 0 0 Mr. John Watts 11 2 Mr. William Norrice 0 p. 0 Mr. Richard French 1 0 Mr. William Wilks 0 p. 0 Mr. John Newman 3 0 William Beedle, Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. John Watts, Junior 1 0 John Evett, Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. Tho. Amphlett 0 1 John Lacie, Cooper 0 p. 0 Mr. John Nash 2 0 Philip Pardoe, Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. James Roberts 1 3 Walter Pardoe, Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. John French 5 0 Will. Beedle, Jun. Labourer 0 p. 0 Mr. William Bookey 3 0  32 1 0 Mr. Geo. Harris 9 0 Of these 22 Persons, 12 of them have only the bare Qualification of a Pepper-Corn, and of the 32 Bulleries and Quarter, Sir Walter Blount is the owner of 20 and a Quarter. Mr. Richard Norbury 6 1 Mr. Tho. Roberts 0 1  72 2 These 26 Persons have the Inheritance of 72 Bulleries and a half.