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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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1717: bill for providing a new livery for Samuel Stubbs, the royal ratcatcher comes to £13; that for Alice Bill, the herbstrewer in ordinary, on the other hand, a mere £1 18s.

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2022-05-20

"My master told me I don't dance firmly & strongly enough." [Dudley Ryder diary]
one for

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2022-05-13

The clock tower (Elizabeth Tower) proved a particular headache for Charles Barry (died 1860) & others. It went through multiple re-designs, 2 'Big Bens' & someone even suggested attaching sails to it so the clock could be powered by the wind.

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2022-05-12

Admiral Byng (executed 1757) continued to haunt the press well into the next century. His example was raised in relation to General John Whitelocke, who was cashiered in 1808 for failing in an assault on Buenos Aires

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2022-03-14

1794 Queen Charlotte was planning ahead, selecting her 'summer silks'

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2022-03-07

1750: hit by earthquake, but
"This tremendous shock did not hinder 12 or 1,300 people from going to the Masquerade... & I believe they would have gone if 1,000 houses had sunk into the earth" [Thomas Wilson]

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2022-02-03

Born 1749 Charles James Fox, towering politician of the 2nd half of the
"Fox’s ‘negligent grandeur’ obscured his brilliance... his oratory, ‘original, deep, subtle, vehement & expansive’... was a force to be reckoned with."

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2022-01-24

1789 the royal family went to the at Drury Lane for the 1st time since George III's illness. They saw the Haunted Tower by James Cobb & Who's the Dupe? by Hannah Cowley
The same day news arrived of the fall of

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2021-12-16

1688 James II's humiliations reached a new low when his letter from Faversham was read out to the provisional at Whitehall. He complained of being stopped by 'a rabble of seamen, fishermen & others' who had taken all of his money.

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2021-12-14

The day before making the final decision to go himself 1688, James II packed his queen & son, Prince James, off to exile in
"This news, being very surprising, has made some persons think fit to shift for themselves"

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2021-12-10