Men set to engage in this action were found to have stood on a chair at the Red Lyon Inn to receive coins from “Mr. Punch” in a 1774 scandal for Thomas Rumbold and Francis Sykes. People who did this action based on their ability to boil cauldrons on their hearths were known as “potwallopers.” Cartoonists portrayed the Duchess of Devonshire kissing men before they performed this action in an apocryphal instance of the crime of “treating.” This action, which could be (*) controlled by installing its performers in so-called “burgage tenements,” was done by “forty-shilling freeholders” in gatherings called “hustings.” A tiny number of people performed this action at sites like Gatton, Dunwich, and Old Sarum. For 10 points, landowners directed the residents of “rotten boroughs” in what action, which many more property-holders were able to do after the Great Reform of 1832? ■END■
ANSWER: voting for Parliament [accept answers indicating votes or voters in British or English parliamentary elections or participating in elections for British Parliament or electing members of Parliament]
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= Average correct buzz position