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Stockbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

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185:, which generally amounted to about 100 voters. Bribery was routine, and led to frequent scandal. In 1689 and again in 1693, the election in the borough was declared void. After the 1689 election was overturned by the Commons for "gross and notorious bribery", its original victor debarred from being re-elected for the constituency in that Parliament, and the bailiff and three other inhabitants of the town were thrown in jail. Then an unprecedented motion was put to disfranchise Stockbridge, and transfer its two seats to the county, but the other MPs - perhaps nervous as to their own position - proved unenthusiastic. After debate the proposal was quietly dropped. 124:, and it is possible that it won its right to vote on the assumption that it would allow the Duchy to nominate its members. However - and unlike most boroughs within the Duchy's sphere at that period - the historian John Neale found little evidence that most of early representatives were Duchy nominees: most were Hampshire men, and it may be that the influence of the local gentry was too strong. Nevertheless, towards the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign Stockbridge returned several MPs who were probably the choices of the Chancellor of the Duchy. 276:) to be elected, but took the trouble to introduce Stanley to the electors. By the time of the Reform Act, Grosvenor was being accused of having countered the prevalence of bribery by a different form of corruption, having hostile voters disqualified by persuading the local overseers of the poor (his appointees) not to rate them for scot and lot, and creating new votes by finding nominal jobs for "unemployables" with the surveyor of roads. 243:, was admitting that while they felt certain of securing one seat for their chosen candidate at the following year's election they saw little likelihood of being able to choose both MPs: the 96 voters had already been bribed in advance to the extent of 50 guineas a man, and if the election was carried to a contest the need for further 217:
Yet despite the apparent need to secure every result by bribery, Stockbridge continued to have a generally recognised "patron", without whose support it was considered difficult if not impossible to be elected, and despite the precarious hold that this patronage entailed, it was as much a commercial
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of the voters and payments to the returning officer would bring the cost to a candidate into the region of £2,500. (In the event this election was not contested, presumably because the votes bought in advance had already made it a foregone conclusion; but there were contests at each of the next four
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The electors now petitioned against this outcome, and the House of Commons proved strong enough to protect its elections from interference. Although there was considerable discussion as to the legal precedents, they eventually resolved that the election of Wallop and Cope was void. Furthermore, they
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By 1774 the younger Fox was in need of money and no longer able to afford the expense of maintaining control of Stockbridge's elections. Yet it seems that he was able to sell his interests there to the Luttrell family, a transaction that can in reality have entailed little more than a guarantee not
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after that day nine months. This, we are told, procured him the interest of the women, who are said to commemorate Sir Richard's bounty to this day, and once made a strenuous effort to procure a resolution, that no man should ever be received as a candidate who did not offer himself upon the same
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by leasing the rights for a term of years. Fox hoped to reduce the venality of the voters but quickly saw a deterioration rather than an improvement, and must have considered his payment to have been a poor investment. Namier and Brooke quote correspondence to show that in 1767 Fox's son, the
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It is not recorded whether the stand of the Stockbridge electors was based on principle or had some less worthy motive, but their successors were certainly more venal. At least from the late 17th century, the right to vote in Stockbridge was exercised by all inhabitant householders who paid
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In 1693, very unusually, the House went against the findings of its own election committee, declaring the election corrupt and void even though the committee had decided that the winner had been duly elected. Instead of issuing a writ for a new election, the House then considered a bill to
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By the 19th century, Stockbridge was no more than a village, and had no case for survival as a constituency even had its elections been impeccably pure. In 1831, the population of the borough was 663, and contained 188 houses. It was abolished as a separate constituency by the
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On petition, Scott and Cator were found not to have been duly elected; their opponents Foster Barham and Porter were seated in their place. The House ordered the Attorney-General to prosecute Scott for having used bribery and corruption at the
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After the invalidation of Rowe's election, the House of Commons initially failed to issue a writ for a new election, instead debating a bill that would have disfranchised the borough. When the bill was defeated on third reading, a new writ was
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The ingenious Sir Richard Steele ... carried his election against a powerful opposition, by the merry expedient of sticking a large apple full of guineas, and declaring it should be the prize of that man whose wife should first be brought
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to oppose the Luttrell candidates and so bid up the price of votes: lavish bribery by the Luttrells was still necessary to secure their seats. When the Luttrells tired of it, the borough passed into the hands of a West Indies merchant,
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Not all the bribery in Stockbridge was as direct as buying votes or corrupting the bailiff. Thomas Oldfield, the 19th century historian of and polemicist against electoral abuse, records the following anecdote of the author
1858: 1960: 17: 1631: 160:) ignored the vote and returned the names of Wallop and Cope as elected; furthermore, the angry Parry, furious to have been defied, had one of the voters arrested and imprisoned. 189:
disfranchise Stockbridge; this time the bill made considerable progress, but it was eventually defeated on the third reading and a by-election was held to fill the vacancy.
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The system came to grief, however, at the election of 1614, causing a controversy that has been regarded as a significant milestone in the House Of Commons' assertion of its
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that cannot have been a town of any real size or importance even at the outset. Although in Hampshire, in Tudor times the borough came within the jurisdiction of the
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On petition, Montagu's election was declared void for bribery, and Montagu was debarred from being elected again for the constituency in the same Parliament.
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as his choices. But the intrepid 28 electors of Stockbridge ignored his wishes, voting almost unanimously for their own candidates,
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expelled Parry from his own seat for subverting the election in another constituency, and prevailed upon the
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Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)
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Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1832
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where control of the elections was absolute. In 1754, the patron was the
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Expelled for issuing a pamphlet in favour of the Hanoverian succession
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and a Mr St John. But the bailiff of the borough (who was ex-officio
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Wallop's election was declared void. On the instructions of the
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17th century attempts to disfranchise Stockbridge for corruption
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Barham was re-elected in 1806, but had also been elected for
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from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the
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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1832
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On petition, Rowe's election was declared void for bribery
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Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I
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The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1754-1790
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The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland
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The borough was first enfranchised during the reign of
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Penistone and Stocksbridge (UK Parliament constituency)
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Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales
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A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament
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Cope's election was declared void - see previous note
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Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire (historic)
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It was one of the more egregiously 7: 1915:Edward Porritt and Annie G Porritt, 1722:Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 138:Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 289:in 1832, being included within the 1919:(Cambridge University Press, 1903) 1370:Lieutenant the Hon. James Luttrell 14: 1886:The Elizabethan House of Commons 1840:D Brunton & D H Pennington, 707:Not represented in the restored 497:Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet 1917:The Unreformed House of Commons 1857:(London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) 670:Parliaments of the Protectorate 112:, and consisted of the town of 1849:Parliamentary Reform 1640-1832 1842:Members of the Long Parliament 1384:Captain the Hon. John Luttrell 1347:Captain the Hon. John Luttrell 1: 1895:(London: Jonathan Cape, 1953) 1888:(London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) 1707:Awdeley was also elected for 1689:. 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In that year, the 128:The election of 1614 79:, which elected two 38:borough constituency 1874:& John Brooke, 1166:Sir Humphrey Monoux 1061:Sir Edward Laurence 611:William Heveningham 557:Sir Henry Whitehead 552:Sir Richard Gifford 537:Sir Richard Gifford 522:Sir Richard Gifford 507:Sir Richard Gifford 492:Sir Richard Gifford 197:, elected in 1713: 154:Sir Richard Gifford 1620:John Foster Barham 1540:John Foster Barham 512:Sir Henry Holcroft 258:John Foster Barham 122:Duchy of Lancaster 1899:T. H. B. 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Index

Penistone and Stocksbridge (UK Parliament constituency)
borough constituency
House of Commons
1832
parliamentary borough
Hampshire
Members of Parliament
House of Commons
Great Reform Act
rotten boroughs
Elizabeth I
Stockbridge
Great South-West Road
Duchy of Lancaster
privileges
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Sir Thomas Parry
Sir Henry Wallop
Sir Walter Cope
Sir Richard Gifford
returning officer
King
Privy Council
scot and lot
Richard Steele
pocket boroughs
attorney-general
Robert Henley
Henry Fox
Whig

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