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... pleased to issue , to give me an opportunity of laying my grievances • before you . They are of a kind hitherto un- paralleled in this free country , and I trust the confequences will teach ministers of Scot- tish and arbitrary ...
... pleased to issue , to give me an opportunity of laying my grievances • before you . They are of a kind hitherto un- paralleled in this free country , and I trust the confequences will teach ministers of Scot- tish and arbitrary ...
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... pleased to iffue orders to lord Egremont , to remove him from his poft of colonel of the militia of the county of Buckingham , which was fignified to him in the following letter . Copy of a letter from the earl of Egremont to the earl ...
... pleased to iffue orders to lord Egremont , to remove him from his poft of colonel of the militia of the county of Buckingham , which was fignified to him in the following letter . Copy of a letter from the earl of Egremont to the earl ...
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... pleased to give me , and am happy , in these days of peace , to leave fo ex- * Mr. Wilkes fucceeded Sir Francis Dafhwood , now lord Le Defpencer , as Colonel . When Sir Francis refigned , he wrote to the officers of the Buckinghamshire ...
... pleased to give me , and am happy , in these days of peace , to leave fo ex- * Mr. Wilkes fucceeded Sir Francis Dafhwood , now lord Le Defpencer , as Colonel . When Sir Francis refigned , he wrote to the officers of the Buckinghamshire ...
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... pleased to make concern- ing the unwarrantable feizure of my perfon , and all the other confequential grievances , allow 6 me to affure you that I feel it far lefs fenfibly on my own account , than I do for the public . The fufferings ...
... pleased to make concern- ing the unwarrantable feizure of my perfon , and all the other confequential grievances , allow 6 me to affure you that I feel it far lefs fenfibly on my own account , than I do for the public . The fufferings ...
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... pleased to reply , that Mr. Wilkes had acted by his advice ; that they found out he was a man of education from his letter , and therefore judged him the more dangerous . Mr. Coates told him , that Mr. Wilkes defired he would write to ...
... pleased to reply , that Mr. Wilkes had acted by his advice ; that they found out he was a man of education from his letter , and therefore judged him the more dangerous . Mr. Coates told him , that Mr. Wilkes defired he would write to ...
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