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The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the #Lords in the #C18th; currently working on 1715-90 #Georgian #Parliament #HistParl
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"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 1745

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2020-10-19

"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, 1748

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2020-10-16

Prior to Marie Antoinette's execution 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?'

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2020-10-16

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

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2020-09-30

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...

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2020-09-24

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

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2020-09-11

Summer 1733 Mr Cotton 'a young gentleman of about 27 years of age' married to Mrs Morgan of Bethnal Green 'a widow gentlewoman of about 72 years of age, with a fortune of £10,000'

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2020-09-04

"I have an aversion to those wits by profession, who think it incumbent upon them always to reflect & express themselves differently from the rest of the they... often give me pain, but never give me pleasure"
Lord Hervey 1731

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2020-09-04

The biggest loser from the battle of Prestonpans was the British commander, Sir John Cope, who was lampooned for executing a very rapid to Berwick; but the whole army was castigated for being 'seized with a Panick' & fleeing after firing one round

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2020-09-03

"May your years be multiplied to my fond wishes & never know an hour of sorrow"
Lady Bristol to Lord Bristol (born 1665) on the eve of his in 1721

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2020-08-27