Two handbills relating to the Sudbury Municipal Election of 1877.

Both items printed on one side of a piece of cheap wove paper. Both items aged and lightly creased, but with text clear and entire. Item One (23 x 12.5 cm): Headed 'Sudbury Election. | 1877.' Twenty lines of text, arranged in six paragraphs each commencing with a rhetorical question: 'What has our Gallant Volunteer done?', 'What has our worthy Nurseryman accomplished?', 'What of the worthy Ironmonger?', 'What would Baker do?, 'What has the Printer done?', 'What of the Worthy Clothier?' Baker would apparently 'Keep the Bull Dog in BLUE quiet, and most likely introduce his Metallic Coffins for our Paupers.' The 'Worthy Clothier' has 'made Ready pay the ready, preached teetotalism, and charged hot for Red Baize.' Item Two (22.5 x 15 cm): Headed 'SUDBURY | MUNICIPAL ELECTION | November 1st, 1877.' Gives the result of the poll for the election of four councillors, those standing (presumably satirised in Item One) named as McKay, Mattingly, Westoby, Lewis, Wright and Baker.