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… set levies naturally monitored communal finances very closely, making each parish a kind of ‘ratepayers’ republic’ where issues like participation, integrity and accountability were often hotly debated. (Eastwood 43) 2 . An early set starting … corruption in early modern England’, in John Sabapathy and María Ángeles Martín Romera (eds.), Popular Control, special issue of Journal of Social History (forthcoming, c. 2023); S. and B. Webb, English Local Government, vol. 1, Book 1 …
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