A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days. Joseph Grego
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Joseph Grego
A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664606211
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. CONCERNING EARLY PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONS OF KNIGHTS AND BURGESSES.
“A NOTE OF MY BATHE BUSINESS ABOUT THE PARLIAMENT.
“THE EARLE OF SALSBURY’S LETTER.
CHAPTER II. PARLIAMENTARY LIFE UNDER THE STUARTS; PAID MEMBERS.
“A GENERAL SALE OF REBELLIOUS HOUSEHOLD STUFF.
“HIS MAJESTY’S MOST GRACIOUS SPEECH TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
“A PENSIONER PARLIAMENT: ANSWER TO THE BALLAD CALLED ‘THE CHEQUER INN.’
“THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE TO BE LET.
“A SPEECH WITHOUT DOORS MADE BY A PLEBEIAN TO HIS NOBLE FRIENDS.
“THE PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED AT OXFORD.
“ON PARLIAMENT REMOVING FROM LONDON TO OXFORD.
“TO MR. E. L. ON HIS MAJESTY’S DISSOLVING THE LATE PARLIAMENT AT OXFORD.
CHAPTER III. PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONEERING UNDER JAMES II., WILLIAM III., AND QUEEN ANNE.
“ON THE CALLING OF A FREE PARLIAMENT. January 15, 1668-9.
“THE WHIGS’ ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY.
“THE UNIVERSITY BALLAD; OR THE CHURCH’S ADVICE TO HER TWO DAUGHTERS, OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.
“A FULL AND AMPLE EXPLANATION OF ONE KING JAMES’S DECLARATION.
“THE RIGHT AND TRUE HISTORY OF PERKIN.
CHAPTER IV. ELECTIONEERING AND PARTY TACTICS UNDER GEORGE I. AND II.
“THE INDEPENDENT WESTMINSTER CHOICE, OR, PERCEVAL AND EDWIN. To the Tune of ‘The Free Masons.’
“THE LORDS’ LAMENTATION; OR, THE WHITTINGTON DEFEAT.
“PEG TRIM TRAM IN THE SUDS; OR, NO FRENCH STROLLERS.
“AUX ELECTEURS TRÈS DIGNES DE WESTMINSTER.
“TO THE WORTHY ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER.
CHAPTER V. SATIRES ON THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 1754.
“THE PARLIAMENTARY RACE; OR, THE CITY JOCKIES.
CHAPTER VI. JOHN WILKES AS A POPULAR REPRESENTATIVE.
“TO THE GENTLEMEN, CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.
CHAPTER VII. MIDDLESEX ELECTIONS, 1768-9.
“TO THE REV. JOHN HORNE, MINISTER OF BRENTFORD.
“THE GOTHAM ADDRESSERS; OR, A PEEP AT THE HEARSE.”
CHAPTER VIII. PETITIONS AND REMONSTRANCES TO THE THRONE, 1769-70.