Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… the leaders of the Whig party, depicts them shortly before the disastrous election of 1710 sitting around a table looking at antique medals and prints as though they were a club of connoisseurs, and probably depicts the earl of Orford’s … with horseracing. Even without such grand meetings, elections occasioned social visits and letters between those seeking to marshal an ‘interest’ behind a candidate. The well-attended Grosvenor canvassing party at Chester in 1818 even … election agent told a correspondent ‘You would have laughed to see how pleased I seemed in kissing of old women, and drinking wine with handfuls of sugar, and great glasses of burnt brandy, three things much against the stomach .’ 4 In 1705 …
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