14 Octob r 1810

Parl. Reform {Plan or} Influence

Ch.

'. Pocket Counties

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1. Mischief the same as Borough-holding

2. Instrument - expence of elections

3. Remedy, putting and end to that expence

'. Pocket Counties How the peace of a County is preserved.

'. Peace of a County - what is meant by it - how to preserve it /its meaning - how preserved/

Two persons, of opposite parties, whether originally so, or constituting themselves to for the purpose, join their interests and exertions for the purpose of seating themselves and one another in the two seats which every English County affords.

For effecting /working/ this arrangement what is the instrument? money. This and this alone is the instrument trusted to and upon occasion employed.

Should any third person propose to be a Candidate whether that /such/ third person be of neither party or of either party, these two rivals by nature /original habit/, partners by compact join against him: if he be of either party, then the contracting candidate who is of that party, desists and gives up his party for the purpose of promoting in this mode his own personal and private interest.