Norfolk: King's Lynn -

Voting Registers - Poll 1784

King's Lynn elected 2 people to represent the Borough in Parliament from at least 1298 until 1885 after which only one person was elected. Before the secret ballot of 1872 Poll Books were published for many contested elections indicating how the voters (only Freemen of the Borough until 1832) voted. See King's Lynn Voting page for all known.

Transcriptions available

Given below are the dates for the other Polls up to 25th July 1837 with links to further transcriptions. For later ones follow the link to the King's Lynn voting page.

• 1747 - Original hand written poll clerks books Nos 2, 3 & 4 only.
    Names, occupation and residence.
• 1747 - Original hand written full copy of poll.
    Detail is as above but with differences in spelling, trades etc.
• 1768 - Names, occupation and residence
• 1768 - Original hand written poll clerks books.
    Detail is as above but with differences in spelling and trades.
• 1784 - Names, occupation and residence
• 1822 - Names, occupation and residence.
• 1822 - Original hand written poll clerks books (including some non-voters).
    Detail is as above plus Christian names & Street addresses.
• 1824 - Names, occupation and residence.
• 1826 - Names, occupation and residence.
• 1835 - Names, occupation and residence.
• 1837

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

THE

P      O      L      L

For  the  ELECTION  of  TWO   BURGESSES,

To  serve  in  PARLIAMENT

For  the  B  O  R  O  U  G  H  of

K  I  N  G ' s - L  Y  N  N,

In  the  County  of  Norfolk,

FRIDAY,  APRIL  the  2d,  1784.

*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*

C  A  N  D  I  D  A  T  E  S,

J  O  H  N    C  A  R  Y  ,   Esquire,   M  A  Y  O  R.

*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*

Printed and Sold by J. GARRATT, 1784

[ 4 ]

K  I  N  G ' s - L  Y  N  N

P    O    L    L,   1784

[ 5 ]

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NOTE

NOTE. Of the 72 Votes for Mr. Fountaine, 39 only were of Freemen resident in Lynn, and 33 of those coming from London and other Places; Of the 39, Thirteen gave one of their Votes for Mr. Fountaine, and the other Vote for either Mr. Walpole or Mr. Molineux, and Twenty-six were Single Votes for Mr Fountaine, and of the 33 not resident in Lynn, Eleven gave one of their Votes for Mr. Fountaine and their other Vote for either Mr. Walpole or Mr. Molineux, and Twenty-two were Single Votes for Mr. Fountaine.

NOTE. On the Poll in the Year 1768, when Mr. Molineux first offer'd himself a Candidate, the Numbers were.

F I N I S.

[End of Poll Book]

Notes

• 1. Some variation will be found in the names of the places when compared to their standard spelling which are given in "()".
• 2. John Daville was minister from 1755 to 1800 at Wiggenhall St. Mary.
• 3. Page numbers (as printed in the original) start at "[4]".
• 4. "P. of Abode."= Place of abode.
• 5. Column headings shows votes for W.=Walpole, M.= Molineux or F.=Fountaine
• 6. "Gent."= Gentleman
• 7. Charles Bagge D.D. was minister from 1755 to 1777 at King's Lynn St Margaret
• 8. In other documents the following alternative spellings have been seen which appear to refer to the same people/places:-
  Peake/Peek

See also the main Voting page,  King's Lynn Voting page,  County elections page and the King's Lynn parish page.

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June 2011