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@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

"Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none: if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest"
Jonathan Swift, died in #Dublin #OTD 1745
#mondaythoughts #twitterstorians

"Never hold anybody by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your tongue than them"
Lord Chesterfield, #October 1748
#FridayThoughts #twitterstorians #wisewords

Prior to Marie Antoinette's execution #OTD 1793 Horace Walpole had queried: "Can one believe that they are human beings, who 'midst all their confusions sit coolly meditating new tortures, new anguish for that poor, helpless, miserable woman?'
#twitterstorians #FridayThoughts

#September 1739 - Earl Fitzwalter settles with his shoemaker for thin #Shoes at 7 shillings a pair, and 'strong ones' at 8 shillings: in all £3: 9 shillings.
@historymatt
#Bills #twitterstorians

Beginning to chip away at a new biography, & have been referred from the off to EB Chancellor's Lives of the Rakes. It's going to be a good one...
#writing #twitterstorians #HistParl

Late summer 1730 one of the earl of Thomond's servants is robbed by highwaymen on #Hounslow heath. One of them tries to #disguise himself by 'wearing his own hair, which he put in at each corner of his mouth'
#twitterstorians