An MP writes to his constituents
Posted by: JoeH on 24 April 2006
Letter from Anthony Henley, MP for Southampton, to his constituents:
'I have received your letter about the Excise, and I am surprised at your insolence in writing to me at all. You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough.
About what you said about the Excise, may God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.'
'I have received your letter about the Excise, and I am surprised at your insolence in writing to me at all. You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough.
About what you said about the Excise, may God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.'