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Jaime
Kaminski
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Little or no attention has been paid to the relationship between electioneering and urban morphology before 1832 despite a general literature that documents patrons' manipulation of small boroughs to improve and/or ensure their or their nominees' election to parliament.1 In Sussex, proprietorial boroughs revealed a pernicious association between the electoral ambitions, power and influence of local landed interests, both aristocracy and gentry, and the acquisition of burgage plots. Their ruthlessness had a profound impact on the appearance of places subject to burgage and related tenures.