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forty‐shilling freeholder

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 518 words | Copyright

forty‐shilling freeholder, a person who met one of the qualifications for the electoral franchise by owning or holding by a lease for lives (as opposed to for a term of years) land worth 40 shillings per annum after payment of rent and other charges. The absence of a land tax removed the main potential check on fictitious valuations, and ‘40‐shilling freeholder’ was a synonym for the poorest class of voter, until the county franchise was raised to £10 after Catholic emancipation.

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