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… no violence to echo this riot. Whitbread and Pollhill were in due course elected to the town’s two seats and Whitbread’s chairing — the carrying of the victorious candidate around the town in a sumptuously decorated chair — was allowed to go … without any recurrence. The town gloried, however, in Polhill’s triumph over Lord John Russell. The description of his chairing, as given by the editor of the local newspaper, is particularly interesting not only for what it reveals about …
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