… 1831), pp. 90–6, 115–21, 124–5, 270–87. While eighteenth-century elections had a reputation for being rough-and-tumble, violence at the hustings reflected a serious breach of the unspoken contract of sociability between candidates and crowd. … August 12th. 1830. (Hertford: S. Staughton, 1831), pp. 44–57. Although the remainder of the poll was rough, there was no violence to echo this riot. Whitbread and Pollhill were in due course elected to the town’s two seats and Whitbread’s …