Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 52156-h.htm or 52156-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52156/52156-h/52156-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52156/52156-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/historyofparliam00greg Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: y^e). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: hon^{ble}). A HISTORY OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS [Illustration: “THE RIGHTS of WOMEN” or the EFFECTS of FEMALE ENFRANCHISEMENT] A HISTORY OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AND ELECTIONEERING IN THE OLD DAYS Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria [Illustration: CANDIDATES ADDRESSING THEIR CONSTITUENTS.] Illustrated from the Original Political Squibs, Lampoons Pictorial Satires, and Popular Caricatures of the Time by JOSEPH GREGO Author of “James Gillray, the Caricaturist: His Life, Works, and Times” “Rowlandson, the Caricaturist: His Life, Times, and Works,” etc. London Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly 1886 [The right of translation is reserved] “I think the Tories love to buy ‘Your Lordships’ and ‘Your Graces,’ By loathing common honesty, And lauding commonplaces.... I think the Whigs are wicked Knaves (And very like the Tories) Who doubt that Britain rules the waves, _And ask the price of glories_.” W. M. PRAED (1826). “A friend to freedom and freeholders--yet No less a friend to government--he held That he exactly the just medium hit ’Twixt place and patriotism; albeit compell’d, Such was his sovereign’s pleasure (though unfit, He added modestly, when rebels rail’d), To hold some sinecures he wish’d abolish’d, But that with them all law would be demolish’d.” LORD BYRON. PREFACE.