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How Bedfordshire Voted, 1735-1784 - The Evidence of Local Documents and Poll Books (Hardcover)
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How Bedfordshire Voted, 1735-1784 - The Evidence of Local Documents and Poll Books (Hardcover)
Series: Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc
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The third in Bedfordshire Historical Record Society's series of
poll books covers the years from the fall of Walpole to the rise of
William Pitt the younger. It was a period when Britain was
constantly at war, when it suffered a dangerous Jacobite rebellion
and when the American colonies were lost. Yet this constant warfare
did not produce the revolutionary changes to the national and local
economy that the Napoleonic wars subsequently created. There is
only one complete poll book for the county (1774) but surviving
lists from Bedford borough, including a partial poll book of 1747,
enable political allegiance to be gauged. Lack of contested
elections does not mean an absence of political activity.
Detectable trends are illustrated from the Duke of Bedford's
archives and the Hardwicke manuscripts in the British Library. They
include the attempts of the Duke to increase his power, which was
successfully challenged in Bedford Borough by the creation in 1769
of many new out-of-town freemen to detach it from his influence;
the decline of formerly prominent political families; and, from the
1760s, the rise of the Whitbreads. The volume also details the
political dimension of the legal cases about the appointment of the
rector of St John's, Bedford; the administration of the Harpur
Trust; and turnpike and enclosure acts. JAMES COLLETT-WHITE is an
archivist at Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service,
and to Sir Samuel Whitbread.
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