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… Correspondence 1781 to 1821, ed. by Castalia, Lady Granville, 2 vols (London, 1916), vol 1, pp. 14–15. Sociability also played a vital part in the eighteenth-century electoral cycle. Recent research by the Eighteenth-Century Political … events of Race Weeks to reinforce the family’s standing in the locality through their presence and ostentatious display, as well as through their conscientious attention to civility and the paternalistic niceties of hospitality. The … together in a solid square, for the protection of themselves and the speaker, who had called forth such a dangerous display of the public wrath […]. (44) A full riot was prevented only when Polhill forced his way to the front of the …
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