Alt Ref NoBHILL/5525
Title"The names and number of the respective Candidates, and of the severall freeholders polled, att the Ellection had for a Knight of the shire...upon Thursday the 13th day of May, 1708...together with the names of the places where the respective ffreeholds doe lye"
DescriptionMost illuminating record of probably the fiercest election ever fought in Anglesey; final numbers, Lord Bulkeley, 167; Owen Meyrick, 152, which fill in a very serious hiatus in W.R. Williams: Parliamentary History of Wales, p.6. The Bodvell faction, the Bodeon contingent, supported by the squires and yeomen of the western hundreds, including not a few in the Bulkeley strongholds of Tindaethwy and Twrcelyn, figure prominently among the 152
Date13 May 1708
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