Historic London election results reveal skewed polls and misprints
The London Evening-Post recounts last Thursday's parliamentary contests in several boroughs. Aldermen Barnard, Parsons, Petty, Godscall, Barber, and Willimott led depictions of nearby totals while Bridgwater and Peterborough show corrections to erroneous tallies. Hastings, Malden, Orford, and surrounding boroughs illustrate varied support for candidates including Ashburnham, Pelham, Bramston, Bladen, Parsons, and Powys, with notes on electorate quality and irregularities.
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Éferday
Meriers
Tottel
Peterborough
London Evening-Post
Armsted Parker
Edward Wortly
Thomas Fonnereau
Scamford
Kingdom of Great Britain
Hastings
Sir Willam
Ashburnham
Thomas Pelham
Whitter Webster
William Ashburnham
Whittier Webster
Malden
Essex
Thomas Bramston
Colonel Bladen
Henry Parsons
Shepherd
Landlord Replies to Tenant Over Malt and Smuggling
In an 1734 London Evening Post letter the landlord notes complaints of money shortages from low barley prices and maltsters’ pay losses. He cites a tenant's arrears, opposes distillers drawing liquor from unmalted corn, and warns malt duty may fall unless Parliament acts to curb the brewing and smuggling evils.
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Parliament
Aldborough
York- Hon
Willian Fefsop
E Buidport
Wiliam Bowles
His Solomn Asiey
Efe
London Evening- Post
Chapman
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Camb. University
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of the Bath
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Edward Lisle
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Henry Liddel
Leonard Smelt
Henry Pierce
Wm. Stapelton
Henry Perrot
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Lord Cornbury
George Clarke
Henry Hoghton
Nicholas Fazakerley
Thomas White
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William Gage
William Haye
John Sackville
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