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The Right Man and the Earl of Pembroke Candidates
A diary style note reports election intrigue with the Right Man and the Earl of Pembroke as candidates and the latter carrying the contest by one vote. It also mentions church, legal, and social notices from Bath, Bristol, and London crowds and officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Pembroke
Bartlet
Holbourn
Leigh
Dorchester
Bath
Prince and Princess of Wales
Bristol
Earl of Crawford
North Britain
Vienna
Edward Cornwallis
Lord Cornwallis
Gore
Dragoons
Balfour
John Chetwynd
Eig
Viscount Chetwynd
Ingestry
Staffordshire
Oxford
Westminster
James Merredith
Wilts
Salisbury
Green
Alton
John Verney
Canterbury
York
Hutchinson
Jacke Newnes
Elizabeth Harr
Moses Hart
Oliver Cromawell
Tower
George Bowes
Durham
Cole
Henry Collet
John Kemp
Middle-Temple
Counsillor
John Stanton
Longbridge
Warwick
Jermyn-street
Lucas
Sale Chandler
Prince of Wales
John
Chelsea
Yarmouth
Suffolk
Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart
Thetford
Norfolk
Pall-Mall
Archbishop of Canterbury
Edborough
Waldershare
Sandwich
Arnold
Drew
Margaret Patroons
Roodlane
Micajah Perry
St. Dunstan’s
James Townley
Charles Townley
York-Herald, At Arms
Bridgin
Brown
Butler
Peirce
Harrison
Santane
Hudson
Smith - Hurley
Worgan
Holland
Royal Exchange
Cheapside
Marthal
Foster-Lane
Cheapside-End
St. Paul’s
Warsaw
Baron de Stoffeln
Oczakow
Bialogorod
Paris
Cardinal de Fleury
Iffy
Versailles
Fontainbleau