Norfolk: Voting Registers - Poll 1802

A copy of the poll for the knights of the shire for the county of Norfolk, taken at Norwich, 12th to 20th July, 1802 [printed by Stevenson and Matchett].

The Poll Book contains the following information :-

CANDIDATES.		VOTES.
SIR JACOB HENRY ASTLEY, Bart.	}
of Melton Constable.	}	3612
THOMAS WILLIAM COKE, Esq.	}
of Holkham.	}	4317
The Hon. JOHN WODEHOUSE,	}
of Witton Park.	}	3517

Norwich:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY STEVENSON AND MATCHETT;

Sold also by W. T. ROBBERDS, Norwich; and all other Booksellers;
Also by the Distributors of the Norfolk Chronicle

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List of the Hundreds and Boroughs, as disposed in the
Fifteen Booths for taking the Poll.

BOOTHS.	HUNDREDS and BOROUGHS.
No. 1	Clavering, Loddon, Henstead.
2	Depwade, Earsham.
3	Diss, Guiltcross.
4	Shropham, Borough of Thetford, Wayland.
5	Freebridge Lynn, Borough of Lynn, Freebridge Marshland.
6	East and West Flegg, Borough of Yarmouth.
7	South Greenhoe, Grimshoe.
8	Forehoe, Humbleyard.

BOOTHS.	HUNDREDS and BOROUGHS.
9	Tunstead, Happing.
10	Blofield, Taverham, Walsham.
11	North and South Erpingham.
12	Holt, Eynsford.
13	Brothercross, North Greenhoe, Smithdon.
14	Clackclose, Launditch.
15	Gallow, Mitford.

The Hundreds, and Towns in each Hundred, are set in alphabetical Order; and so are all the F R E E H O L D E R S N A M E S.

Each Page consists of six Columns. The first contains the Names of the resident F R E E H O L D E R S in each Town; the second, the Places where the FREEHOLDS lie; the third, the Names of the OCCUPIERS, the other three Columns have the initial Letters of the CANDIDATES Names set at Top, and the black Lines drawn under them shew how every FREEHOLDER voted.

At the end of the Poll, is a GENERAL VIEW of it; and also an INDEX to the TOWNS in NORFOLK.

The book contains the following (where "T" indicates trades also given):-

Hundreds and Boroughs

Norfolk

Page Nos	HUNDREDS and BOROUGHS.
1 to 4	Blofield
4 to 6	Brothercross
6 to 15	Clackclose
15 to 19	Clavering
19 to 24	Depwade
24 to 28	Diss
	Docking (see Smithdon)
29 to 32	Earsham
32 to 37	Erpingham, North
37 to 44	Erpingham, South
44 to 50	Eynsford
51 to 69 (53 to 69)	Flegg, East (Borough of Great Yarmouth)
69 to 72	Flegg, West
72 to 79	Forehoe
79 to 91 (82 to 88)	Freebridge Lynn (Borough of King's Lynn)
91 to 95	Freebridge Marshland
96 to 99	Gallow
100 to 104	North Greenhoe
105 to 108	South Greenhoe
109 to 112	Grimshoe

Page Nos	HUNDREDS and BOROUGHS.
113 to 116	Guiltcross
116 to 120	Happing
121 to 123	Henstead
123 to 129	Holt
129 to 131	Humbleyard
(82 to 88)	Borough of King's Lynn (T) (Part of Freebridge Lynn)
132 to 138	Launditch
138 to 141	Loddon
141 to 147	Mitford
177 to 183	Norwich
148 to 154 (152 to 154)	Shropham (Borough of Thetford)
155 to 157	Smithdon
158 to 160	Taverham
(152 to 154)	Borough of Thetford (Part of Shropham)
161 to 165	Tunstead
166 to 169	Walsham
170 to 173	Wayland
(53 to 69)	Borough of Great Yarmouth (T) (Part of East Flegg)

Counties (including City of Norwich)

ie. Those with a large number of voters.

Page Nos	Counties or Place
174 to 175	Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely, &c.
175 to 177	London, Westminster, &c.

Page Nos	Counties or Place
177 to 183	Norwich (Note 3) (T)
183 to 188	Suffolk

Distant Voters

[which contains the following :-]

Other Counties

Page Nos	Counties &c.
189	Buckinghamshire
189	Derbyshire
189	Essex
189	Gloucestershire
189	Hampshire
189	Hertfordshire
189	Huntingdonshire
189	Lincolnshire

Page Nos	Counties &c.
189-190	Northamptonshire
190	Oxfordshire
190	Shropshire
190	Somersetshire
190	Staffordshire
190	Surrey (Surry)
190	Warwickshire
190	Hoxton, near London (Note 5)

[Page 191]

Alphabetical List of Hundreds and votes cast for each CANDIDATE.
(A General VIEW OF THE POLL)

[Page 192-198]

An Index
or Alphabetical LIST of the TOWNS in the COUNTY
of NORFOLK, shewing the differents Hundreds in which
they lie, and the Page in which each Town is to be found.

The Market Towns are printed in Capitals.
N.B. No resident Freeholder, from any town against which no Number is set, gave his vote at this Election.

[The list of Towns has not been transcribed]

[End of Poll Book]

Notes

1. Some variation will be found in the names of the places in the book.
2. Docking Hundred parishes are included under Smithdon.
3. "Norwich City and County of the City" freeholders are not in the book as it was a County election. Only those whose freeholds were outside the City boundary (of the time) and who chose to vote are in the Norwich section. The occupations of voters in the city are also given.
4. Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. and Thomas Coke were elected.
5. Hoxton is now in the "London Borough of Hackney" but was in Shoreditch Parish at this time.
6. There were more than 3,815 voters at this election.
7. Occupations of all voters are available in the other poll book for this year produced by R. Bacon but he excluded occupiers.

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