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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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"The Lords degenerate by Luxury Idleness &c and the Crown is always forced to govern by new Men" Jonathan Swift, 1719

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2019-12-05

Too good to be true? 1716 for the "Famous drops for Hypochondriack Melancholy which effectually cure on the spot... setting the Intellectuals at Liberty to Act with Courage, Serenity and steady Chearfulness..."
Only 3 shillings, 6 pence a bottle

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2019-12-04

Died 1748 Charles Seymour "Proud" duke of
Both he & his duchess were major figures at the court of Queen Anne
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2019-12-02

Phrase of the day: "froth and whipsillabub" - what people made of promises made to the population of by the bishops of Llandaff in the

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2019-11-28

"the shining light or rather the blazing star of this country" - Richard Grosvenor (later Earl Grosvenor) on William Pitt the Elder 1758 when seconding the Address in in support of the Pitt-Newcastle "the glory of this country"

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1717 William Shippen was sent to for dubbing the King’s speech at the opening of
‘rather calculated for the meridian of Germany than that of Gt Britain’ & George ‘a stranger to our language & constitution’
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2019-11-21

Died 1723 "drowned in drink" Lord Carr Hervey, older brother of 'Lord Hervey' & MP for Bury St Edmunds
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2019-11-14

1688 the people of Brixham were greeted by the arrival of an invasion fleet: William of Orange making landfall on the fortuitous anniversary of the discovery of the
Now he had to wait to see who would rally to him.

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2019-11-05

In command of the invasion force was Admiral Arthur Herbert. James II had sacked him the year before so William took advantage & invited him to join his forces.
Herbert went on to be rewarded with an earldom & a job at the head of the admiralty

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2019-11-04

"when the does meet, I doubt, nay hope, it will make less sensation than usual"
Horace Walpole to the earl of Strafford, 1783

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2019-11-02