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#WordOfTheDay: Fuddlecap.
In 1716 Bishop Burnet's son wrote about the effect the new bishop of Salisbury's alcoholic treats were having on his 'fuddlecap clergy' & how 'half a hogshead of wine & strong beer' had made them forget his father overnight
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#OTD 1718 Carr Lord Hervey (older brother of John) wrote to Henrietta from Aswarby complaining "we can find no other employment here but riding & walking about all day which unluckily gives us too good appetites for the slender diet my guests & I commonly meet with"
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Gillray, who was born #OTD 1756, caricatured the great & the good as well as depicting social scenes & more surreal subjects. He is particularly valuable for students of #Parliament for his depictions of MPs mid-flow in the old House of Commons
https://t.co/ujT9ygCEKc
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Born #OnThisDay 1756 in #Chelsea, James Gillray, pre-eminent caricaturist of the #Georgian period
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Kneller very helpfully painted the latest character on the anvil: William Talbot, who was successively bishop of #Oxford, #Salisbury and #Durham. Notoriously ambitious, Talbot made the most of his final appointment as a 'Prince Bishop' having missed out on #Canterbury
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@ElizStJohn @SueCooperBridge @LloydLlewJ @17thCenturyLady Among her other household officials, the duchess rejoiced in N. Le Dent, who from 1662 was employed as her 'Yeoman of the Mouth' - presumably her official taster, but certainly one to fox census compilers
#unusualoccupations
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#OnThisDay 1714 Queen Anne's will was read out. She left £2000 for the poor & asked for her jewels to be divided between the Queen of Sicily & duchess of Somerset: 'the fittest person to wear them after her'
https://t.co/mubCTscfP4
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Died #OnThisDay 1788 Thomas Gainsborough, unmistakable artist of the #18thcentury. He is supposed to have painted this portrait of William Wollaston c.1759; a decade later Wollaston became MP for #Ipswich. Read more about him below: https://t.co/c3nbkv7eon
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Gloucester's birth, just months after the 'Glorious Revolution' had represented the stability of the new regime but he suffered from a number of maladies & his brief life was nicely summed up in the #birthday ode composed by Purcell in 1695
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@SueCooperBridge Like so much else about Rochester, his admission to the House of Lords was controversial as he was summoned underage & (unlike Mulgrave who was also summoned when a minor) decided to test the situation & turn up. The Lords were unhappy but the king insisted.
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