A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days
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- Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria
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1. Front matter2. A HISTORY OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS SHOWING THE STATE OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY WARFARE AT THE HUSTINGS AND IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FROM THE STUARTS TO QUEEN VICTORIA CANDIDATES ADDRESSING THEIR CONSTITUENTS. ILLUSTRATED FROM THE ORIGINAL POLITICAL SQUIBS, LAMPOONS PICTORIAL SATIRES, AND POPULAR CARICATURES OF THE TIME BY JOSEPH GREGO AUTHOR OF “JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, WORKS, AND TIMES” “ROWLANDSON, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, TIMES, AND WORKS,” ETC. London CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY 1886 [The right of translation is reserved]3. PREFACE.4. Introductory material5. CHAPTER I. CONCERNING EARLY PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONS OF KNIGHTS AND BURGESSES.6. CHAPTER II. PARLIAMENTARY LIFE UNDER THE STUARTS; PAID MEMBERS.7. CHAPTER III. PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONEERING UNDER JAMES II., WILLIAM III., AND QUEEN ANNE.8. CHAPTER IV. ELECTIONEERING AND PARTY TACTICS UNDER GEORGE I. AND II.9. CHAPTER V. SATIRES ON THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 1754.10. CHAPTER VI. JOHN WILKES AS A POPULAR REPRESENTATIVE.11. CHAPTER VII. MIDDLESEX ELECTIONS, 1768-9.12. CHAPTER VIII. PETITIONS AND REMONSTRANCES TO THE THRONE, 1769-70.13. CHAPTER IX. REMARKABLE ELECTIONS AND CONTROVERTED ELECTION PETITIONS, 1768 TO 1784.14. CHAPTER X. THE GREAT WESTMINSTER ELECTION OF 1784.15. CHAPTER XI. REMARKABLE ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL MEETINGS, 1788 TO 1807.16. CHAPTER XII. ELECTIONEERING CARTOONS AND SQUIBS, 1807-20.17. CHAPTER XIII. ELECTIONEERING, POLITICAL WARFARE, AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM UNDER WILLIAM IV., 1830-32.18. CHAPTER XIV. CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTIONEERING, 1833 TO 1857.19. A List of Books PUBLISHED BY CHATTO & WINDUS, 214, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W. Sold by all Booksellers, or sent post-free for the published price by the Publishers.20. THREE-VOLUME NOVELS IN THE PRESS.21. THE PICCADILLY NOVELS.22. CHEAP EDITIONS OF POPULAR NOVELS.