180:"Dr Butler ... met the voters under a great tree, the place usually chosen for the purpose of election. During the time the Portreeve was reading the acts of Parliament usually read on such occasions, one of the voters handed in to him a card containing the names of two candidates, proposed by himself and seconded by his friend. He was told ... this was too early. Before the reading was completed, the voter on the other side handed in a card corresponding with the former, which he was told was too late. The meeting broke up. The Portreeve and assistants adjourned to a public house in the neighbourhood, and then and there made a return of
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there were 112 houses within the borough boundaries, and 139 in the whole village. The population was not separately recorded in the census. It was customary for elections to be conducted under a great tree in the centre of the village; there was no equivalent of a town hall, and indeed no municipal
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carried the following report of what happened in Bere Alston in the general election there in 1830:
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Francis Henry Drake (1723-1794) : letters from the country, letters from the city
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Constituencies of the
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from 1584 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the
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actual residents. Otherwise the report is probably truthful.
2425:"BLACKETT, Christopher (1787-1847), of Wylam Hall, Northumb"
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Parliamentary constituency in the United
Kingdom, 1801–1832
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Caused by Percy's succession to the peerage, becoming 5th
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The
Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III
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The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland
2451:"LYON, David (?1794-1872), of 34 Grosvenor Square, Mdx"
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Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales
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2536:Scott-Stokes, Charity; Lumb, Alan (2019).
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2209:Learn how and when to remove this message
2611:(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
2576:(London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
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2569:(London: Hutchinson, 1973)
2361:Sir John Mitford from 1793
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1603:Hon. Josceline Percy
582:Barebones Parliament
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451:First party
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186:Mr Blackett
139:Bere Ferris
135:Bere Alston
116:Elizabeth I
72:Bere Alston
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1929:Candidate
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