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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/Q/905
TitleCopy of a 'Curious Election Bill' bill delivered to an Irish Member of Parliament by a publican after a recent general election
Extent1 item
DateEarly 19th century
DescriptionList of charges incurred during election campaign, including for food and lodging for freeholders, stabling for horses, and 'for shaving, dresssing and cropping the heads of 42 freeholders for Sir John @ 13d', Jemmy Carr by Bryan Geraghty

[Published in 'Scrapiana, or elegant extractions of wit', 3rd edition, 1820, and elsewhere]
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