… Electioneering also took place in printed tracts and periodicals. From the 1640s onwards a genre of electoral advice literature emerged that became an important part of eighteenth- century political culture. In the 1690s such print was … us at every election’. 10 ‘Black-lists’ of how MPs had voted were circulated with hostile glosses and much of the literature was said to be intent on deceiving rather than informing the public. 11 Such printed electoral advice …