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1820 Feb. 20
Collectanea Constitut. Code — Bentham's Reform Bill Seen 1828 Jany 17
Ch. VI. Legislative
§ Secrecy of Suffrage
Suffrage Secrecy
necessary.
Secrecy of suffrage — Exemplification of the necessity of it.
Extract from Examiner Feby 20. 1820. — Taunton.

"Sir Thomas Lethbridge ... possess a good deal of
property in the Borough (Tauton) and ... drives his vassals
to the poll, just as a drover does his beasts to market.
The Baronet, it must be confessed, has an odd way of showing
his respect for "British freedom", which he says in
his harangues, excites "the envy of the world". When several
of his tenants took him at his word, and exercised a
little of the said "British freedom", in refusing to vote for
his Brother-in-law, he proceeded to eject them from their
houses: nor could the poverty of some of them, nor the
extreme bitterness of the season (it was last Christmas)
stay the stern hand of "the Protestant Champion".



Identifier: | JB/109/187/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.

Date_1

1820-02-20

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

109

Main Headings

Constitutional Code

Folio number

187

Info in main headings field

Collectanea Constitut. Code Benthams Reform Bill

Image

001

Titles

Secresy of suffrage / Exemplification of the necessity of it

Category

Collectanea

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::I&M [Prince of Wales feathers] 1818]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1818

Notes public

ID Number

35842

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