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In 1747 Lord Fitzwalter sacked one of his footmen, Charles Woollam: 'an idle, stupid, drunken, good-for-nothing fellow' - but he still gave him his wages in full to the sum of £2 19s. 6d.
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#Nameoftheday: HMS Happy, one of 4 similar 8-gun sloops of war.
Unfortunately the ship & crew had an unhappy end, being lost, wrecked off the Norfolk coast 10 years after commissioning.
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In 1732 Viscount Howe laid on an entertainment for the #Nottinghamshire freeholders, which involved providing a whole ox & 3 sheep for roasting along with 10 hogsheads of strong beer.
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30 July 1794 was a busy day for George III: 10am left #Windsor arriving Kew at noon; 12.45 left for #London, back to Kew by 6.30; at 7 off in the 'sociable' with the queen for a drive round Richmond Park; back by 9, work till 10, supper, bed by 11.
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William of Gloucester (died #OTD 1700) had complained of a sore throat at his birthday celebrations on the 24th, on the 26th he had a fever & on the 27th 'went into delirium with short broken sleep & incoherent talk'... he died early on the 30th.
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#Holiday 18th-century style: in 1794 the royal family went to #Weymouth, where a typical day was: morning walking on the esplanade, back to read for 3 hours, dinner, more reading, back onto the esplanade where we 'met those we saw in the morning'
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@shearwood_mark @JamesII_Society Interesting - there are exceptions, of course, & his reputed favourite horse Sorrel appears to have been a Palomino

#OnThisDay 1782 Edmund Burke (died #OTD 1797) addressed #Parliament following the death of Rockingham & appointment of Shelburne as #PrimeMinister: "Would any man in his sober senses try whether a wolf would agree with lambs?"
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Pitt the Elder speaking in a (very) socially distanced House of Commons
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Summer 1786 - John Wilkes claimed to be 'too far exhausted' to last the whole debate on Warren Hastings' role in the Rohilla War, which didn't end till 8am next morning, so 'paired off at 11 on Friday night' & next day headed for Brighton
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