A young woman implores her father to allow her to marry a politician who supported a different candidate in the Middlesex by-election from the one favoured by the father. Engraving by J. Miller, 1769.

Ladies and gentlemen at Bath brawling over the election of the Master of ceremonies. Engraving, 1769.

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Contested elections

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A young woman implores her father to allow her to marry a politician who supported a different candidate in the Middlesex by-election from the one favoured by the father. Engraving by J. Miller, 1769.

Ladies and gentlemen at Bath brawling over the election of the Master of ceremonies. Engraving, 1769.