Printed song, which adapts the words and music of 'Rule Britannia', to the Minehead election of 1796. The election saw a successful challenge to the electoral dominance of the Luttrell family of Dunster Castle, with the return of the 'anti-Luttrell' candidate, John Langston. The song engages with the wider rhetoric of the anti-Luttrell campaign, which decried the 'tyrannical sway' of the Luttrell family.
Somerset Heritage Centre; SHC DD/L/1/59/12/11
Image copyright South West Heritage Trust
Candidate: Thomas Fownes Luttrell
Candidate: John Fownes Luttrell I
Candidate: Charles Morice Pole
Candidate: John Langston
Constituency: Minehead
date: 1796
date: c1796
Election: -
keyword: Song
keyword: Printed Text
maker: [Unknown]
materials: Ink
materials: Paper
place: Minehead
place: Dunster Castle
place: Dunster
Candidate: John Fownes Luttrell I
Candidate: Charles Morice Pole
Candidate: John Langston
Constituency: Minehead
date: 1796
date: c1796
Election: -
keyword: Song
keyword: Printed Text
maker: [Unknown]
materials: Ink
materials: Paper
place: Minehead
place: Dunster Castle
place: Dunster
