To the worthy freemen of the city of Oxford. Gentlemen, after having been unanimously nominated by the council of this city, and a very respectable body of the freemen, as a candidate to represent you in the ensuing parliament, I little expected to have been deserted by some of that assembly, ... on account of a groundless aspersion which has been thrown on the character of a noble person, ...
Craven, William Craven,Baron,1737 or 1738-1791.
[London,
1768]
Signed and dated: William Craven. London February, 25th, 1768.
William Craven, the protege of Willoughby Lord Abingdon (the "noble person") and standing as a candidate in the Oxford parliamentary election of 1768, issuing a complaint aimed at the corporation of Oxford for putting forward other candidates.
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