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were used to influence voters. There seems to have been some
electioneering, in the modern sense: Anthony Wood says that
Pym Vode about the country to promote the elections of the
puritanical brethren to serve in parliament1. The results were
almost uniformly unfavourable to the court, except in Wales,
Somerset, and some northern counties.
'The richest and most populous part of the country (with the ex-
ception of Somerset) thus declared against the king. ... It was the
heart of England, in wealth, population, and progressive quality,
that appealed, through its chosen representatives, against past op-
pressions and apprehensions for the future/1
1 R, N. Kcrshaw, In Eng. Hist, Rtv., xxxviiL 508.