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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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Standard refreshments laid on for deputations waiting on the dowager Princess of Wales at Leicester House in the mid-#18thcentury seem to be:
French rolls, hock, madeira, burgundy, claret & champagne

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2022-03-16

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

"Princes are never supposed to be very ill till they die" [Lord Egmont]:
February 1737, George II suffering a lengthy indisposition, but by the 6th "they brag that he is now able to eat a little minced chicken"

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2022-02-10

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

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at on the impeachments of Queen Anne's former ministers & the transformation of Hall into a court, along with on the earls of Sutherland & Nigel Aston on Lord George Germain.

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2022-01-04

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