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Voting Registers - Polls 1734-1735

An alphabetical draught of the polls for 2 members of Parliament for the City of Norwich taken May 15th, 1734/5 and also includes the poll for a member of Parliament for the City of Norwich taken February 19th 1734/5. Note that some people voted in only one of the elections.

The Poll Book contains the following information :-

Alphabetical Draught

OF THE

POLLS


Sir Edward Ward, Bart.
Miles Branthwayt, Esq;
AND OF
Horatio Walpole, Esq;
Waller Bacon, Esq;

For Members of Parliament for the CITY of NORWICH:

Taken May the 15th, 1734.

AND OF


Miles Branthwayt, Esq;
AND
Thomas Vere, Esq;

Taken February the 19th, 1734

Incorporated in one LIST.

NORWICH: Printed and Sold by T. Goddard, 1735.

By whom such Gentlemen as please may have them bound at 6d. each, and all other
Binding Work done very reasonably.

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To the Gentlemen, Citizens and Freeholders of the CITY of
NORWICH.

GENTLEMEN,

We here present you with the last two POLLS for Representatives of this CITY, incorporated in one LIST; which we have found to be a Work of much greater Trouble and Difficulty than we imagin'd; but having once engag'd in it, we resolv'd to spare no Pains to give you Satisfaction, in making it as perfect as we have been able: How well we have succeeded we submit to your Candour and Judgement.

A great many of the Names of those who voted at both Elections, being taken at differently at one of them, from what they were at the other, has given us Occasion to enquire into the true Writing of a much greater Number of Names, Freeholds and Callings wrong taken, than could possibly have been come at by the Examination of any One Poll: The rectifying such Names we concieve will be of great Service both in taking and scrutinizing future Polls.

All the Christian Names and Surnames that are printed in Italick, [sic] and all the Freeholds or Callings that are printed in Roman, amounting to above 500, are such as we have ascertained by actual Enquiry, either of the Persons themselves, or of such as knew them well.

Our Desire to represent both Polls justly as they were taken, has been the Cause of one unavoidable Inconvenience : which is, that the Names of those who voted at both Elections as residing in different Parishes, etc. will be found in two Places in this LIST: according to their different Residence: And as such Names appear mark'd off in one of the Places but for one Election, a Doubt necessarily arises, whether such Persons voted at both Elections or not. To remedy this

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Inconvenience, we have annexed an Alphabetical Table of all such Names as we inserted in two Places in the LIST, shewing where they are to be found; and consequently all Names there that are mark'd off but for one Election, and which are not in that Table, are such whose Names are in only one of the Polls: For Example, Bartlet Samuel, St Stephen's, All Saints, signifies that his Name is inserted in St Stephen's at the first Election, and in All Saints at the last. Again Beart Edw. All Saints, is mark'd off only for the first Election, and is not in the Table; which shews his Name is not in the Poll for the last.

We hope there are no material Errors, besides those taken Notice of in the Errata inserted at the End of the LIST, and in those at the End of the Table Removals. If Gentlemen upon perusal shall find and considerable Number of such as deserve Notice, and will be pleas'd tofavour us with their Observations, we promise to print an Account of them, which shall be deliver'd Gratis.

We expect there will be some Mistakes found relating to Residence, caused partly by the Noise and Hurry which always attends a POLL, and partly by the Abbutments of the Parishes on one another; which the Voters themselves are sometimes ignorant of: But as such Errors are of small Importance, we doubt not but our Friends will readily excuse them; and the more so, because it was impossible to rectify them without going through the whole Incorporation and Examination, before we could have printed off one Sheet; which the pressing Instances of many for a speedy Publication would by no Means admit of. And this last Excuse we beg may be accepted of, for the Errors mention'd in the Errata. We are

GENTLEMEN,

Your most oblig'd and

most humble Servants,

T. and W. Goddard.

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A TABLE of the Number of VOTERS in each Parish, &c.

Page		Ward	Bran.	Walp.	Bacon	Bran.	Vere
5	ALL Saints	10	10	11	11	11	10
6	St Andrew's	86	85	62	60	75	56
10	St Augustin's	30	31	51	52	26	62
12	St Benedict's	30	31	51	52	26	62
14	St. Clement's	15	9	47	44	6	52
15	Earlham	-	-	2	1	-	3
16	Eaton	3	3	1	1	3	1
16	St. Edmund's	14	13	18	18	14	20
17	St. Etheldred's	10	10	6	6	7	6
17	St. George's of Colegate	50	41	96	90	33	108
21	St. George's of Tombland	38	34	50	47	29	60
24	St. Giles's	52	52	56	55	46	55
27	St. Gregory's	51	51	57	55	50	54
30	Heigham	15	17	17	19	15	16
31	St. Helen's	12	12	25	26	9	18
32	St. James's	14	14	13	13	14	12
33	St. John's Maddermarket	42	40	29	28	44	30
35	St. John's Sepulchre	51	49	29	29	44	29
37	St. John's Timberhill	42	39	12	9	47	18
38	St. Julian's	18	17	23	24	22	22
40	Lakenham	2	2	-	-	3	2
40	St. Laurence	26	27	49	48	28	45
42	St. Margaret's	29	28	36	37	26	43
44	St. Martin's at Oak	41	40	30	29	37	35
46	St. Martin's at Palace	47	46	41	39	43	46
48	St. Mary's (at Coslany)	41	37	37	34	29	41

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A TABLE of the Number of VOTERS in each Parish, &c.

Page		Ward	Bran.	Walp.	Bacon	Bran.	Vere
50	St. Michael's of Coslany	35	34	55	54	35	60
53	St. Michael's at Plea	26	24	24	22	15	30
54	St. Michael's at Thorn	30	29	39	39	30	37
56	St. Paul's	41	39	34	32	39	28
58	St. Peter's of Hungate	13	11	26	24	7	27
60	St. Peter's of Mancroft	142	136	72	71	131	76
65	St. Peter's Permountergate	38	36	53	52	31	61
68	St. Peter's at Southgate	13	13	6	6	10	12
69	Pockthorp	17	17	9	9	17	12
69	St. Saviour	27	28	46	46	24	52
72	St. Simon & St. Jude	13	12	49	47	8	47
73	St. Stephen's	105	102	84	83	99	83
78	St. Swithin's	22	22	24	24	21	23
80	Thorp. Hamlet	1	1	-	-	1	-
80	Trowse, Carrow & Bracondale COUNTRY, &c.	5	4	5	6	8	5
80	The CLOSE, &c.	18	18	13	13	17	17
81	LONDON	75	75	137	137	67	97
87	LYNN Regis	1	1	11	11	-	13
88	Wymondham	8	8	15	15	11	15
88	YARMOUTH	14	14	35	35	14	42
90	COUNTRY	215	215	228	228	223	214

		Ward	Brant.	Walp.	Bacon	Brant.	Vere
Inhabitants of the CITY and Hamlets		1289	1237	1347	1313	1155	1422
Inhabitants of the COUNTRY, &c.		331	331	439	439	332	398

TOTAL		1620	1568	1786	1752	1487	1820

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Alphabetical LIST

OF THE

POLLS

FOR


Sir Edward Ward, Bart.	}	Horatio Walpole, Esq;	}
Miles Branthwayt, Esq;	}	Waller Bacon, Esq;	}
AND OF
Miles Branthwayt, Esq;	and	Thomas Vere, Esq;

The Poll Book continues with All Saints starting on Page 5 to voters in the Country finishing on Page 103.
Use the Links above on Pages [iii] and [iv] or use the search detailed later.

Layout of each page from 5 to 103

The Parish or area is named and under each of these are seven columns as indicated below :-

Column 1. Names of people who voted set out in an alphabetical Order. These include Freeholders and Freemen but they are not separately indicated.
Columns 2, 3, 4 and 5. Each voter had up to 2 votes. Horizontal bar(s) indicate the 1 or 2 candidates voted for if they voted on the 15th May 1734.
Columns 6 and 7. Waller Bacon died triggering an election. A horizontal bar indicates the candidate voted for if a vote was cast on the 19th Feb 1734-5 [1735] election.

The Poll Book continues with :-

103

Page	For				Make
22	Burcham Robert, sen.	Walp.	Bacon	Vere			Vere
ib.	Burcham Robert, jun.			Vere	Walp.	Bacon	Vere
40	Bardwell John,	Ward	Brant.		Ward	Brant.	Brant.
ib.	Bridges John,	Walp.	Bacon	Vere	Walp.	Bacon
43	Garrod Thomas,	Ward	Brant.		Ward	Brant.	Brant.
ib.	Girling Thomas,	Ward	Brant.	Brant.	Ward	Brant.
49	Baldry John,				Baldy John,
52	Goodwin John, jun.	Walp.	Bacon	Vere	Walp.	Bacon
ib.	Goodwin John, Twisterer	Walp.	Bacon		Walp.	Bacon	Vere
64	Scott Tho Worstead-weaver				Scott Thomas, Cordwainer
68	Thirkettle John,	Walp.	Bacon		Walp.	Bacon	Vere
ib.	Tite Thomas,	Ward	Brant.	Vere	Ward	Brant.
72	Denham Charles,				Denham Charles-Denhold,

Pages 104 to 107 contain:-

A TABLE of different Residence

which is described as :-
An Alphabetical TABLE of all such NAMES as are inserted in two Places in the foregoing LIST
ie. in the Poll Book.

107

For want of Room in Page 103, we were oblig'd to insert the following Errata here.

Page	For				Make
36	Matthews John,	Ward	Brant.	Brant.	Ward	Brant.	Vere
75	Dix William,			Brant.			Vere
83	Goodman Samuel,				Goodwin Samuel,
85	Long Joseph,	Walp.	Bacon	Vere	Ward	Brant.	Brant.
89	Hooke William, Esq;				Hooke William, Surgeon
90	World Thomas, Gent.				Warld Thomas, Gent.
98	Moore John, Worst.-wea.	Ward	Brant.	Vere	Ward	Brant.	Brant.

Notes

1. Some variation will be found in the names of the parishes/places.
2. The following alternative spellings for parish names should be noted :- St. Augustin/St. Augustine, St. George Colgate/St. George Colegate, St. Laurence/St. Lawrence, St. Peter Permountergate (Parmentergate)/St. Peter-per-Mountergate
3. The hamlet of Pockthorpe is in parish of St. James.

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Voting Registers - Polls 1734-1735

Alphabetical Draught

POLLS

NORWICH: Printed and Sold by T. Goddard, 1735.

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Alphabetical LIST

POLLS

Layout of each page from 5 to 103

103

A TABLE of different Residence

107

Notes

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