| Description | Papers 6745-6747 seem to make it abundantly clear that a Committee of the House of Commons, and that before the great Tory triumph of 1710, had decided in favour of Beaumaris only. More, the Bulkeleys carried the struggle over to Pembrokeshire - Sir Arthur Owen of Bodeon was also aquire of Orielton in that county - by petitioning against the return of A.0. for the Pembroke boroughs in October, 1710, on the ground that the burgesses of Wiston had an equal right to vote with those of Pembroke (see paper 6748). The Committee of the House decided in favour of that argument, and Sir Arthur Owen was unseated (W.R. Williams: Parliamentary History of Wales, 163). Thus the Bulkeleys doubly fortified their position in Anglesey by the disfranchisement of Newborough, and increased the Tory strength in Pembrokeshire by securing the franchise to Wiston |