POL FOR THE L ELECTION of Two KNIGHTS FOR THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, To ferve in the PARLIAMENT, to be holden at the City of Taken at WINCHESTER, in the faid COUNTY, in JUNE, 1790, BEFORE GEORGE DACRE, Junr. Esq. SHERIFF. SIR CANDIDATES, LORD JOHN RUSSELL, The Freeholders are all arranged under the feveral Parifhes, Tythings, &c. in which Taken from the ORIGINAL POLL, depofited in the Office of Clerk of the Peace, By GEO. HOLLIS, DEPUTY SHERIFF, and late DEPUTY CLERK of the PEACE. Sold also by the following Perfons : W. RICHARDSON, Royal Exchange, LONDON; WINCHESTER, Burden, Robbins, and Blagden; SOUTHAMPTON, Baker, and Skelton; PORTSMOUTH, Gough Adde Hant 4. 17. PREFACE. AVING been continually preffed for a fpeedy Publication of the Poll, and fome Gentlemen having expreffed their Surprise at the Delay, it may be neceffary, perhaps, to say a few Words, by Way of Apology for it's not coming out fooner; and firft, I truft it will be fome Excufe for me, that the Variety of my Avocations, when the Poll was taken and for fome Time after, neceffarily kept me fo fully employed that I had not that Leifure I wifhed to devote to this Publication myfelf; notwithstanding which, the fuborninate Parts of it, that did not require my own particular Attention, were immediately fet about, and continued, 'till completed, without Intermiffion; and, tho' my then holding the two Offices of Deputy Sheriff and Deputy Clerk of the Peace, prevented my bringing out the Poll fo foon as I might have done, had I been lefs engaged, it has ultimately conduced to render it more perfect, by my having the double Advantage of taking the Poll as Deputy Sheriff, and having full Accefs to the ORIGINAL POLL after the Twenty Days expired, when it must be depofited in the Office of the Clerk of the Peace, during which fhoft Interval from the Poll it would not have been poffible (confidering all the public Business that immediately fucceeded) to have fent it out with any Degree of Accuracy. With thefe Advantages, and from the Time I have taken to publish it, it will be expected in a greater State of Perfection than if it had been performed more haftily; and I hope it will be found fo. THE little Utility of the printed Poll for the laft contefted Election, where the Freeholders were confufedly and irregularly mixed juft as they were polled, having been pointed out to me, and being convinced of it's Infufficiency to anfwer the neceffary Purpofe, I fet about arranging all the Freeholders under the Parishes in which their Freeholds lie; the Ufe of which in all Cafes, but particularly On |