Suffolk

In Suffolk the general meeting of the nobility, gentry, and freeholders usually chose two Tories without opposition. The only contest occurred in 1727, when the local Whigs, headed by the Duke of Grafton, the Earl of Bristol, and Lord Cornwallis, put up a candidate against the sitting Tory Members, who were re-elected.West Stow & Woodwell Parish Registers 1518-1850 (1903), p. 233. In 1747 the Whigs, meeting separately from the Tories, put up two candidates, who withdrew before the poll.Grafton to Newcastle, 20, 30 June, 2 July 1747, Add. 32711, ff. 433, 604; 32712, f. 17; Letter Bks. of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, iii. 333-4.