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![[Satire of the Bristol Election of 1837.] The Weird Three.](jpegs/68747.jpg)
[Satire of the Bristol Election of 1837.] The Weird Three.
Bagshaw fecit.
Monday, Printer, White's Ruins [n.d., c.1838].
Broadside, etching and letterpress. Sheet 450 x 285mm (17¾ x 11¼"). Trimmed into plate at top, creasing, surface soiling at bottom left.
A broadside presenting Tories attempting to overturn the 1837 Bristol election results as MacBeth's Three Witches around a cauldron, with papers marked 'Perjury', 'Lies', 'Slander' and 'More Perjury' When Liberal Francis Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley (1794-1870) was elected MP for Bristol, three petitioners (Bush Cookson & Payne, on behalf of the defeated Tory candidate William Fripp) accused him of extensive bribery and treating, as well as corruption, using his role as a trustee of the Anchor Society to obtain votes. A committee of the House of Commons was appointed to hear the case assembled in February, 1838, but after three days the petition was abandoned. Individual actions were brought against three other trustees and were all acquitted. In bringing the charges a woman was found guilty of perjury and the editor of the Bristol Journal was sued for libel and lost. Berkeley held his seat until his death in 1870.
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Bagshaw fecit.
Monday, Printer, White's Ruins [n.d., c.1838].
Broadside, etching and letterpress. Sheet 450 x 285mm (17¾ x 11¼"). Trimmed into plate at top, creasing, surface soiling at bottom left.
A broadside presenting Tories attempting to overturn the 1837 Bristol election results as MacBeth's Three Witches around a cauldron, with papers marked 'Perjury', 'Lies', 'Slander' and 'More Perjury' When Liberal Francis Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley (1794-1870) was elected MP for Bristol, three petitioners (Bush Cookson & Payne, on behalf of the defeated Tory candidate William Fripp) accused him of extensive bribery and treating, as well as corruption, using his role as a trustee of the Anchor Society to obtain votes. A committee of the House of Commons was appointed to hear the case assembled in February, 1838, but after three days the petition was abandoned. Individual actions were brought against three other trustees and were all acquitted. In bringing the charges a woman was found guilty of perjury and the editor of the Bristol Journal was sued for libel and lost. Berkeley held his seat until his death in 1870.
[Ref: 68747] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)