| Item Description: | A handbill attacking William Robinson, who had published handbills supporting George Finch Hatton, the candidate for Rochester in the 1784 parliamentary election; Samuel Collingwood himself recommends Nathaniel Smith, another candidate. - English Short Title Catalog, T179262. - In: 'Papers respecting the election at Rochester, April the 1st, 1784', printed by T. Fisher, Rochester, 1784. - Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford). - Signed: An independent freeman, i.e. Samuel Collingwood. - Text begins: "I feel myself very much hurt by the continual and repeated attacks of blind prejudice; by the weak and insidious assertions of those men whose present conduct is wholly inconsistent with what they have ever before professed |
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