Election
Walpole is elected to Parliament for King's Lynn, elected every subsequent general election for the next 40 yrs
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1702 in Great Britain
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Historical records for Great Britain in 1702
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Member of Parliament
Walpole is elected to Parliament for King's Lynn, elected every subsequent general election for the next 40 yrs
Shortest Way with Dissenters Published
Defoe anonymously published The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, satirizing religious intolerance through an extreme fictional proposal.
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