Both pamphlets published London, 1834, viii + 60 pp & [4] + 62 pp . Two pamphlets examining Liverpool’s long struggle with electoral malpractice and Parliament’s close attention to it. ‘In the early nineteenth century the national image of Liverpool electors was unenviable. Liverpool was in its way as notorious as Grampound, Penrhyn or East Retford. Its electoral practices were the subject of three parliamentary enquiries and were debated at length in parliament in connection with the Liverpool disfranchisement bill. In the House of Commons in July 1833 Edward Gladstone claimed that 'the proceedings at that election [ 1830 ] were certainly sufficient to secure for the town of Liverpool an immortality of disgrace'. In his 'Black Book', John Wade described open boroughs such as Liverpool as 'the vilest points of our representation, exhibiting, at every election, the most revolting spectacles of venality, drunkenness, riot and licentiousness'. ( E. M. Menzies ‘The Freeman Voter in Liverpool, 1802-1835’, 1973 ) Both pamphlets are scarce, each one showing four locations only on Library Hub. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets formerly in the library of Thomas Quayle ( 1759 - 1844 ). The Quayles were a most influential Manx family, founders of one of the Manx banks amongst many other achievements. Thomas was a successful barrister in London and a gentleman farmer in Suffolk. He was the author of ‘A General View of the Agriculture of the Isle of Man’ ( London 1812 ).