Votes were cast by spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, erected on the Market Place (now Cathedral Square).
Voting was restricted to the adult male owners of freehold land with an annual rental value of 40 shillings or more – the equivalent of about £80 in 2008 – and votes could only be cast at the county town of Lancaster, by a public spoken declaration at the hustings.
"Generally speaking, the declaration will answer all the questions that have been raised in the past months and years," he said.
Tragic declarations are spoken breezily.
"In 1999 or 2000, I had a conversation with Roger Clemens in which Roger told me that he had taken human growth hormone," Pettitte said in the affidavit, a potentially pivotal declaration if spoken before a jury.
A president typically quick to make black-and-white declarations spoke instead in shades of gray.
As a kid growing up in southwestern Virginia, I lived down the street from a cloistered visionary named Greg, an older boy who read books and spoke in zealous declarations.
Kip spoke in emphatic declarations about the elusive "wrongness" he was searching for.
Local religious leaders, including an Imam and a priest also spoke at the declaration in support of the announcement and community's progress.
More than a dozen Senate Republicans have spoken out against his emergency declaration — including Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson, Pat Toomey, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Lamar Alexander, Ben Sasse, Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Mike Rounds, Charles E. Grassley and Roy Blunt.
The declaration spoke of popes "overstepping and enforcing in an inadmissible way" their authority over doctrine.
