The Whig party underwent various travails during MCC
's time in politics. In December 1716 and April 1717, when Lord Townshend
(brother-in-law of Robert Walpole
) was dismissed first from one and then from another...
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1716: The hawker Elizabeth Scales, eighty years...
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1716
The hawker Elizabeth Scales
, eighty years old, poor, and ill, petitioned Lord Townshend
against her imprisonment for selling an opposition newspaper which she could not read, being illiterate.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.