Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… ‘bribe’, really mattered. In the early eighteenth century Patrick Haldane, a candidate for judicial office in the Edinburgh Court of Sessions who was accused of electoral bribery, distinguished ‘betwixt Bribery to compass Offices, and …
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