The Case of Bramber-Election, which was on Thursday the 27th of January, 1714. For Edward Minshull, Esq; against Sir Thomas Stiles, Bart. Return'd... caption title

by Edward Mishull

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A petition to Parliament by Edward Minshull, a parliamentary candidate who argues that his loss to Sir Thomas Stiles in the 1714 Bramber election was the result of illegal voting. Bramber, a small village in West Sussex, was one of the most notorious of the rotten boroughs, parliamentary constituencies whose representation in the House of Commons far exceeded the appropriate ratio to the voting population, thus allowing one or a few major landholders in the area undue political influence in

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