A concise algo for becoming a member of the House of Commons
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~1693:
"He must go through all the miseries of a canvass, must shake hands
with crowds of freeholders or freemen, must ask after their wives
and children, must hire conveyances [0] for outvoters [1], must open
alehouses, must provide mountains of beef, must set rivers of ale
running, and might perhaps, after all the drudgery and all the
expense, after being lampooned, hustled, pelted, find himself at the
bottom of the poll, see his antagonists chaired, and sink half
ruined into obscurity."
[0] conveyance -- transport.
[1] outvotes -- people who had votes in places where they did not
reside.
From The History of England by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Chapter
19.
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Authors: ag