Note 18 — Chapter II · THE ALHAMBRA (MAY-NOVEMBER 1831)
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In 1830 the Parliamentary area of the corrupt Borough of East Retford was enlarged by the addition of the Hundred of Bassetlaw, in which the delinquent borough was situated (1 Wm. IV. c. 74). The borough electorate was thus increased by the forty-shilling freeholders who already voted in the elections for their county. (Porritt’s Unreformed House of Commons, vol. i. p. 16.)