To the worthy electors of Colchester. Gentlemen, you have so lately asserted the right of independent electors to choose their own representative, in the free choice of your worthy Member Sir Robert Smyth, ...
Independent burgess.
[Colchester,
1781]
An election handbill exhorting the Colchester electors to choose their own representative rather than have one foisted on them.
Dated at head: Colchester, 9th October, 1781.
Signed: An independent burgess.
ESTC
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?c=1&locID=nlibscot&stp=Author&ste=11&af=BN&ae=T226709&tiPG=1&dd=0&dc=flc&docNum=CW105959848&vrsn=1.0&srchtp=a&d4=0.33&n=10&SU=0LRL+ OR+0LRI