HOUG/1/111
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22 Mar. 1878
Parte de Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
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14 Mar. 1861-20 Nov. 1865
Parte de Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
HOUG/E/B/7/21
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25 Aug 1872
Parte de Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Pontefract [embossed with Pontefract town seal]. - Election result; Major Waterhouse spent nearly £300 on tea parties to bribe cottagers; Liberals now united; Lord Pollington cut a miserable figure; harvest; Masonic Lodge; [postscript]: 20% of the Knottingley voters were illiterate.
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16 Sept. 1858
Parte de Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Pontefract. - Michael [John] Mitton is nearly 17; he needs a situation to defray the expenses of education.
HOUG/E/B/7/50
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17 Nov 1877
Parte de Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
On embossed notepaper, All Saint's Vicarage, Pontefract. - Thanks Houghton for promising to support bazaar; recent controversy arose from Hammond's reference at Temperance Meeting to excessive drinking within Corporation; advocates abstinence but is not a 'Teetotal fanatic'.
With enclosure: letter from Richard Moxon to Joseph Hammond, 5 Oct. 1877, Pontefract. - Objects to Hammonds description of Pontefract as the most drunken town in England; any intemperance is due to the presence of migrant workers; Moxon will continue to exercise Mayor's prerogative to distribute wine after church services; withdraws support for bazaar to fund alterations at parsonage.