frenchise

Obsolete spelling of franchise.

[…] the clerk of the Sebastian Circuit Court issued a writ of quo warranto, against the appellee, Raphael M. Johnson, requiring him to show by what authority or warrant, he exercises the office and frenchise of Mayor of the City of Fort Smith, in the county of Sebastian, in this State.

Meetings of Freemen legally & peaceably assembled to Petition Congress for the Elective Frenchise not to be taken away by law, […]

Alternative form of Frenchize.

These Advantages cannot now, it is true, be recoverd: An Emperor of Germany is now chosen, I shall not say legally chosen, by the Influence of France; the Empire is now full of French or Frenchised Armies; and the Queen of Hungary has been stript of a great Part of her Father's Dominions.

That the bishop not being in the secret had acted with reserve and caution, and would do nothing without the queen's special commands; whereas the earl of Strafford not only was forward to venture and undertake any thing, as he expresses himself in one of his letters, to be the tool of a Frenchised ministry; but in many instances had gone beyond his instructions, and advised the most pernicious measures.