 The right to vote was reserved to the freemen of the town, whether or not they were resident within the borough.In 1831 this amounted to 955 qualified voters, of whom only 320 lived in Sandwich.The freedom could be obtained by inheritance, by serving an apprenticeship, or by marrying the daughter or widow of a freeman; the corporation apparently did not, as in some boroughs, have the power to create unlimited numbers of honorary freemen so as to swamp the rights of the genuine freemen.