Excerpt from The Parliamentary History of the County of Oxford, Including the City and University of Oxford, and the Boroughs of Banbury, Burford, Chipping Norton, Dadington, Witney, and Woodstock, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1213-1899: With Biographical and Genealogical Notices of the Members The most noted of the Oxfordshire elections was that of 1754, when each side is said to have expended J640000, upon the contest and petition which followed. The political opinions of the various Members during the eighteenth century are the result of the special researches of the Rev. A. B. Beavan, m.a., who has also very kindly revised the portion relating to Woodstock. Due mention must be made of the assistance derived from the various parochial histories, and from such standard works as the Dictionary of Nalional Biography, and the Alumni Oxonienses of Wood, and Fosz'er, and the Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, and Calendars of S late Papers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.