Aldeburgh was a pocket borough of the Fonnereau family; after Thomas Fonnereau’s death in 1779 it seems to have come under the control of his brother-in-law Philip Champion Crespigny. Chauncy Townsend nibbled at the borough in 1768,Add. 32988, ff. 355, 361; Walpole, Mems. Geo. III, iii. 112-14. but otherwise there seems to have been no serious opposition to the Fonnereau interest.

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2
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in the freemen

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Number of voters: about 50

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