Bribery Evidence in Shaftesbury Election Trial
Witnesses describe bribery schemes at the Red Lion and the Three Swans during April and May, with payments of twenty to thirty guineas to voters. Testimony links Aldermanic influence, the mayor’s actions, and the Oram network to vote buying, while Punch impersonations and suspicions of Mr. Sykes and Mr. Rombald surface in sworn depositions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiiliam Gatehouse
Red Lion
Mr. M
Shaftesbury
Buckland
Silas Mullin
Three Swans
Arnold
Good
Mansfield
Archilaus Oram
Oram
Sykes
Bannet
Burkland
Rombald
John Raffel
Punch
Mortimer
George Knight
Corporation
John Mays
John Jarvis
James Reid
J. Tanswell
Michael Hatch
William Dickke
John Stacey
Samuel Moulins
John Sims
William Dole
Mullins
Sims
Rombold
Tea as a cause of unrest in Parliament over East India Company plan
The speaker argues that sending tea to America would harm the East India Company and provoke American resistance. He questions the Company’s motive to raise funds by selling large tea stocks, notes the likely price drop and smuggling impact, and asserts his intent to oppose the measure on grounds of injustice to merchants and overall ill effects. The discussion focuses on economic and political consequences of the tea plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East-India Company
Europe
America
East India Company
Beneft
Court of Directors
Tom
England
Scotland
Ireland
Allfmuzeling
Rarch
Boston
América
C—way
Great Britain
Robert Henry
T. Cadel
Strand
N.B
Great-Artan
William Deke
Normancy
Dave
J. Murray
Fleet-street
W. Nicoll
St. Paul’s Churchyard
Universal Mag
Wales
G. Kearfly
Fleet
Marchant
Edinburgh
Alexander Anderso
Norton
Golden-square
Piccadilly
London
John Norton
Maredant
Nonon
Fragmentary quote on persecution and Popery in colonial reign
A fragment expresses that ri¢ans are injured and oppressed by cruel measures of an An whose breathes only force of persecution and hatred of Popery. The passage reflects sectarian tension and punitive governance rhetoric from a historical source.
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Arperman Bull
Speaker
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Petersburgh
Nathaniel Wraxall
T. Cadell
E. Dalby
M& S
Rawlins
Beaconsfield
Cavalier
Edward Rawlins
Bull Inn
Bucks
J. Dalby
F., Newbery
Geckspur-street
M. Burchell
Long-acre
Mrs. Bowen
Royal Exchange
Robert Simson
University of Gission
Edintureh
C. Elliott
Ana Nli
William Blackstone
Her Majesty
W. Strahan
D. Prince
Oxford
Englaad
Ecdaesia
A. Burn
Tarporley
Chehires
Paternofter
Ibliotheca Curiosa
T. Evans
No. Go
York Buildings
Mir
Robson
New Bondestreet
Ridley
St. James's Street
Owen
Richardson
Great Britain and Ireland
Fale
L. Hawes and Co
Pacer
Kennedy
W. Bayley
Cupidpur-sreet
A. Rothwell
New Bond-firesg
F. Newbery
Ludgate-street
Sts Paul's Church-yard
J. Price
Norgo
Leadershas-street
J. Grosvenor
Chancery-lane
Holtborn
The
Mr. Norton
Golden Square
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