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Total number of records: 11

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	5
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1

Count of Subject

Subject	Count
political corruption	11
church and state	2
finance	2
elections	1
political ethics	1

Count of Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	7
Africa	1
Hull (England)	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Great Britain. Parliament	3
Mann, Alice	2
Wade, John (1788-1875)	2
Boyle, J R (1853-1907)	1
Cayley, George John (1826-1878)	1
Defoe, Daniel	1
Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)	1
East India Company (Great Britain)	1
Herbert, Auberon	1
Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of, 1631-1712	1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1600	2
From 1700	1
From 1800	7
From 2000	1

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	2
Up to 1799	1
Up to 1899	6
Up to 1999	1
Up to latest	1

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The black book, or, Corruption unmasked! : being an account of places, pensions, and sinecures, the revenues of the clergy and landed aristocracy : the salaries and emoluments in courts of justice and the police department : the expenditure of the civil list... cost, influence, patronage, and corruption of the borough government

Wade, John (1788-1875)

1820

Anonymous by John Wade. Includes index.

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The black book, or, Corruption unmasked! : being an account of places, pensions, and sinecures, the revenues of the clergy and landed aristocracy : the salaries and emoluments in courts of justice and the police department : the expenditure of the civil list... cost, influence, patronage, and corruption of the borough government

Wade, John (1788-1875)

1820

Anonymous by John Wade. Includes index.

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Plunder and bribery further discover'd : in a memorial humbly offer'd to the British Parliament

Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)

1712

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe. Cf. ESTC.

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Mann's black book of the British aristocracy, or, An exposure of the more monstrous abuses in the state and the church : with black lists of pensioners, royal, aristocratic, legal, civil, diplomatic, hereditary, military, clerical, etc

Mann, Alice

[1848?]

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Mann's black book of the British aristocracy : or, An exposure of the more monstrous abuses in the state and the church : with black lists of pensioners, royal, aristocratic, legal, civil, diplomatic, hereditary, military, clerical, etc

Mann, Alice

[1867?]

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Indignant rhymes : addressed to the electoral body at large

Cayley, George John (1826-1878)

1859

By G.J. Cayley.

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The state visit : drama

Osundare, Niyi (1947-)

2002

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A politician in trouble about his soul

Herbert, Auberon

1884

Reprinted, with alterations and additions, from the 'Fortnightly review'.

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A collection of the debates and proceedings in Parliament, in 1694, and 1695. Upon the inquiry into the late briberies and corrupt practices

Great Britain. Parliament

Printed in the year 1695

In this edition, there is no advertisement at foot of p. 63. Another edition has an advertisement.

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A Letter from a gentleman in Yorkshire to his countryman in London, concerning the Duke of Leeds. With an answer to the said letter

printed in the year 1695

"Answer to the... letter / from a friend in London" has separate t.p. (p. [15]) bearing same imprint (verso blank). Anon.

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Bribery and corruption at Hull in the reign of George the First : the story of a parliamentary election

Boyle, J R (1853-1907)

[ca. 1905]

Press cutting extracted from the Hull Times, ca. 1905, and mounted.