12 May 1817: The transport of voters in the election of the registrar of deeds at Wakefield
Anne Lister. 1992. I know my own heart. Ed. Helena Whitbread. New York: New York University Press. Get it:
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Monday 12 May [Halifax]
5 chaises, a stagecoach that commonly runs between Leeds & Halifax, the Blackpool mail (a long coach, so called in derision), the Wakefield car, a sort of tea-cart topped something in the same way as a sociable to keep off the rain, all passed here this morning, filled with voters for the Registrarship of Wakefield. The contending parties, Mr Frank Hawksworth & Mr Fenton Scott. The report of this evening is in favour of the former. 2 more chaises passed to Wakefield in the afternoon.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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Monday 12 May [Halifax]
5 chaises, a stagecoach that commonly runs between Leeds & Halifax, the Blackpool mail (a long coach, so called in derision), the Wakefield car, a sort of tea-cart topped something in the same way as a sociable to keep off the rain, all passed here this morning, filled with voters for the Registrarship of Wakefield. The contending parties, Mr Frank Hawksworth & Mr Fenton Scott. The report of this evening is in favour of the former. 2 more chaises passed to Wakefield in the afternoon.
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- Lister, Anne (1791-1840) (8), wealthy diarist, famous for revelations for which she has been dubbed "the first modern lesbian"
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- 📌Wakefield (36), cathedral city on the River Calder in the West Riding/West Yorkshire ·
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