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Correspondence from Ongley, Robert Henley, Great George Street to Percival Beaumont: Letter regarding Bedford elections Transcript available

23 May 1767

From: 1767 To: 1767

Reads- Told Whitbread what passed when I waited on your Grace; also said no person could have the least prospect of success who should appose either candidate nominated by your Grace & Corporation; & that you considered yourself, under the subsisting compromise, obliged to use whole interest for both candidates; so he ought not to take offence; he said he did not; & that his whole point was against Sir Thomas Hatton, utter stranger to the town; but nothing should induce him to oppose your interest, which he always supported. He thought all the dissenters would be with him rather than Sir Thomas; and that he might gain over several Hon. freemen; but I assured him as to the latter, he was known to be too good a Whig to expect any interest of that kind. On the whole, although I believe he will desist, but he said he would think about it.

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Ongley,
Whitbread,
Hatton, Thomas

Westminster Great George Street, Bedford elections, Corporation of Bedford, Freeman, Whigs