Seven English boroughs were disenfranchised by the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 the subsequent year:

For the first time in the history of the English nation a man of colour has been elected as mayor of an English borough.

He was a Member of Parliament for three English boroughs from 1727 until 1747.

Elections were held in several English boroughs, including all those in London.

Torbay is an English borough and bay.

Abingdon was one of three English parliamentary boroughs enfranchised by Queen Mary I as anomalous single-member constituencies, and held its first Parliamentary election in 1558.

It received its first marcher charter from William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke some time between 1213 and 1219, and obtained the lucrative trading privileges of an English borough.

More than this, there were well-known precedents abroad-in the cities of Lombardy and in France, for example- and there existed already such a restriction in some English boroughs.

The name Bury, (also earlier known as "Buri" and "Byri") comes from an Old English word, meaning "castle", "stronghold" or "fort", an early form of modern English borough.

As Westminster had the largest electorate of any English borough, the scrutiny of votes (to check that each voter had been legally qualified to participate in the election) was thought likely to take a long time.