VIII John Robinson's ‘State’ of the House of Commons, July 1780

Autor:	Ian R. Christie
Rok vydání:	1990
Předmět:	History Parliament House of Commons media_common.quotation_subject Presumption Windsor Computer Science Applications Education Treasury Politics Royal Archives General election Law media_common
Zdroj:	Camden Fourth Series. 39:441-497
ISSN:	2051-1701 0068-6905
Popis:	The ‘State’ of the House of Commons reproduced here from the original in the Royal Archives at Windsor was prepared during July 1780 by John Robinson, secretary to the treasury under Lord North.Its purpose was to forecast the likely results of an immediate general election. This copy was provided for the information of George III, who had been urging the advisability of a dissolution of parliament for some weeks and who was keenly interested in the possibilities of political advantage to be gained from such a step. There is a presumption that Robinson retained another workingcopy in his office at the treasury for the use of himself and Lord North; but if this was indeed the case, it was not preserved among his papers, which are therefore much less informative about the general election of 1780 than they are about the run-up to the dissolution of 1784.
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