Shaftsbury Election To Be Further Heard May 3 1715 A Particular Of Mr Bensons Estate At Bromley In

by Willliam Benson

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An interesting assessment of a country squire's income. An unrecorded document lobbying Parliament in support of the election of William Benson as MP for Shaftesbury, disclosing the ownership history and financial information on his family estates in Middlesex. William Benson 1682-1754 was a prominent early Whig political writer, politician, amateur architect, and patron of the arts. This broadsheet refers to the election by which Benson would first enter Parliament, by

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