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Men set to engage in this action were found to have stood on a chair at the Red Lyon Inn to receive coins from “Mr. Punch” in a 1774 scandal for Thomas Rumbold and Francis Sykes. People who did this action based on their ability to boil cauldrons on their hearths were known as “potwallopers.” Cartoonists portrayed the Duchess of Devonshire kissing men before they performed this action (15[1])in an apocryphal instance of the crime of “treating.” This action, which could be (*) controlled by installing its performers in so-called “burgage tenements,” (10[1])was done by “forty-shilling freeholders” (10[1])in gatherings called “hustings.” A (10[1])tiny (10[1])number (10[1])of people performed this action at sites like Gatton, Dunwich, (-5[1])and Old (10[1])Sarum. For 10 points, (10[2])landowners directed the residents (10[1])of “rotten boroughs” in what action, which many (10[1])more property-holders were able to do after the Great Reform of 1832? ■END■ (10[1])

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