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.
