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

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2020-11-30

1688 James II reached 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

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2020-11-19

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

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2020-11-06

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

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2020-11-05

"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 1725

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2020-10-29

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

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2020-10-19

"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