Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]
… if not inverted. In 1679 an 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 Sir Roger Jenyns similarly rode ‘with a boy after him through the fens kissing the farmers’ wives and begging their recommendation to their husbands’ . 5 As these examples suggest, electoral …
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