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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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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

1715 the House of Lords debated the impeachment of the 2nd duke of Ormond. After he failed to appear to answer the charges he was to James Butler, Yeoman, & his arms as a Knight of the Garter in St George's Windsor taken down & pulverized

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2020-08-15

In a not very effective effort to avoid prying eyes the duchess of Beaufort (born 1711) & her lover Lord Talbot arranged assignations in the equivalent of a country lay-by.
Unsurprisingly the coachmen were watching & later gave evidence against.

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2020-08-14

"forced to grapple with a problem far beyond his statesmanship & indeed well-nigh insoluble, his career was one of disaster". Died 1792 former Frederick North, 2nd earl of Guilford, better known as Lord North.

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2020-08-05

Summer 1730 & the 1st earl of Sussex makes his will insisting that his book remain at his house so 'they may be always used & enjoyed' by the owner.
The 2nd & 3rd earls died without heirs; the house was demolished.

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2020-07-20