the village of clogher, county tyrone was originally a corporation borough. it was enfranchised by letters patent in the fifth year of charles i, and by its constitution the corporation was to consist of a portreeve and twelve burgesses, and the first members were to be nominated by the then bishop of clogher. "we are unable," wrote the municipal commissioners who visited the borough in 1833, "to discover any trace of the existence of a corporation, beyond what may arise from the right to vote for members of parliament having been attached by the bishops of clogher to the grant of each stall in the cathedral, and the exercise of that right." for some time the corporation apparently existed in this loose form, and the occupants of the stalls in the cathedral were the sole electors of the members from clogher; but in the middle of the eighteenth century the freeholders of the manor tendered their votes at an election. they were refused; and they petitioned parliament against the return. the house of commons admitted their right to vote; and clogher thus became a manor borough. the bishops, however, never lost their control, and at the union clogher was dealt with as one of the bishop boroughs.