All electoral surveys during this period assign the borough to Edward Eliot, in the briefest terms, without any qualification. Thus Newcastle, March 1754: ‘Mr. Eliot’s interest’; Thomas Jones, Lord Edgcumbe’s agent, June 1760: ‘Mr. Eliot’; Rockingham, summer 1765: ‘Edward Eliot, Esq., absolutely’; John Robinson, December 1783: ‘Under Mr. Eliot’s arrangement’.
Volume
Number of seats
2
Right of election
in ‘householders who have lived a year in the borough’
Background Information
Number of voters: about 20
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