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… of the Poll taken at the Guild-Hall in the Borough of Leicester (1768), ‘Introduction’. Chairing was often followed by a dinner or dance. The Election Magazine or Repository of Wit and Politics (1784), relating to a Norwich election, noted … or tumult’ and had been followed by ‘a brilliant assembly’. 18 The victorious county MPs that year also held a ‘joyous’ dinner at which celebratory toasts were drunk to ‘The King and Constitution’ and ‘Prosperity to the County of Norfolk’. …
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