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Forty-shilling freeholders were those who had the parliamentary franchise to vote by virtue of possessing freehold property, or lands held directly of the king, of an annual rent of at least forty shillings (i.e. £2 or 3 marks), clear of all charges.[1]
The qualification to vote using the ownership and value of property, and the creation of a group of forty-shilling freeholders, was practiced in many jurisdictions such as England, Scotland, Ireland, the United States of America, Australia, and Canada.
- ^ Robert Simpson (1839). The history of Scotland, from the earliest period to the accession of Queen Victoria. Oliver & Boyd. pp. 338–. Retrieved 20 January 2013.