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#January 1731, Lincolnshire schoolmaster Stephen Harrison is taken ill at dinner 'which it's thought was occasioned by a piece of a gizzard of a goose which he swallowed too hastily, & expired immediately'
#twitterstorians #chewyourfood #BSECS21

Getting to grips with latest book for review & attention drawn to reference to Plautus's ever useful advice:
"Cast not thy meat into a pisspot"
#quoteoftheday #twitterstorians

Three days before #Christmas 1747 Fitzwalter discharged his footman, Charles Woollam, paying him off with £2 19s: "an idle, stupid, drunken, good-for-nothing fellow"
#MerryChristmas #twitterstorians

At the Court of Q Anne, both the 'Proud Duke' of Somerset (died #OnThisDay 1748) & Duchess (known as 'Carrots') were highly influential. Jonathan Swift attacked her in 'The Windsor Prophecy':
Root out these Carrots, O Thou whose Name
Is backwards & forwards always the same [Anna] https://t.co/epjIlK7J6n

"Never submit to stir a finger in any business but that for which you were particularly hired"
Jonathan Swift, born #OnThisDay 1667
#twitterstorians #MondayMotivation

#OnThisDay 1688 James II reached #Salisbury but rapidly abandoned plans to push his cavalry forward to meet William of Orange as he didn't trust them not to defect. He took to his bed suffering from stress & constant nosebleeds
#GloriousRevolution #twitterstorians #HistParl

@Jarona7 Neither Sainsbury, Postgate nor Cash seem to mention this (Sainsbury's life probably the best recent one). Try PDG Thomas's life

#OnThisDay 1688 William of Orange made his landing at Torbay. With him was an invasion army numbering between 14,000 & 15,000, including troops from Switzerland, Finland & 200 black soldiers from Dutch plantations in #America.
#HistParl #twitterstorians #GloriousRevolution

"it is the Duty of a Good Citizen to assist as far as circumstances will allow every individual under sufferance for exertion in the cause of liberty"
Catharine Macaulay to John Wilkes, who was born #OnThisDay 1725
#HistParl

"When you have done a fault, be always pert & insolent & behave yourself as if you were the injured person"
Jonathan Swift, died #OnThisDay 1745
#MondayMood #twitterstorians