Letter from Edward Pease, London, to Henry Pease, describing a walk by ‘Edward Pease and Junr. to the House of Commons; their missing the introduction of Lord Morpeth’s bill; Joseph Pease’s speaking on the register bill; Joseph’s serving on a committee on the London Police Bill, extending the jurisdiction of the police by 5 miles, to the area round the General Post Office to allow for the punishment of those committing cruelty to animals – ‘before it was bounded by principal streets and that cruelty to animals might be practised on one side of Oxford Street & be no offence on the other being beyond the jurisdiction’; the composition of a committee to try disputed elections: ‘the Coleraine committee to try the election has some pleasant interesting members on it – Hardy of Bradford, Ireton, Brotherton, etc. etc. – it will not be so degrading a business as many – the returning officer gave the casting vote the question will be who polled the most bad votes’; enclosing a letter to Rachel; describing how their time is spent; referring to Henry’s mother’s belief that ‘we have too much on hand & are too throng’; putting the question to Henry: ‘what have you done about a new Engine?’, 9 May 1833 Franked by Joseph Pease as Member of Parliament – From: Quaker families of Darlington,Pease family, Henry Pease (1807 – 1881), Correspondence