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There were various options open to #Parliament in settling the #Revolution: 1) invite James II back under limitations; 2) make William of Orange king; 3) make Princess Mary queen; 4) make William & Mary joint monarchs
#OTD 1689 #GloriousRevolution #twitterstorians

The death of the 7th earl of Leicester in 1743 resulted in a battle royal between his illegitimate daughter, Anne, & his niece, Elizabeth Perry, the one referred to as 'the Fairy' & the other as 'the Empress of Penshurst'. The Empress won.
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Yesterday's events in Washington a reminder of how easy it was to infiltrate the porous old palace of #Westminster👇
https://t.co/GapxjsPx8L
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#OnThisDay 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard & Dr John Jeffries crossed the #Channel from Dover to Calais in a balloon, though only after an unseemly argument resulting in Blanchard having to prove he was not weighted down by lead underwear
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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
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#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