Abstract
Commenting on Walpole’s position in the Commons, Sarah Marlborough snapped: ‘I really think that they might pass an act there, if they pleased, to take away Magna Carta’.1 On the other hand, ‘Medium’, a character in a London play of 1737, reflected: ‘He out of office shall often oppose to be employed; and the man in post shall be restive to rise higher! — Well! of all men living, I think a primier [sic] Minister the most wretched’.2
References
Beinecke, Osborn Shelves, Stair Letters, No. 3.
Lynch, The Independent Patriot (1737), p. 31.
Wodrow, Analecta, III, p. 156.
AE.CP.Ang. 376 f.91.
Cobbett, XI, 921, 1118.
HL MO 4557.
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Black, J. (1990). Conclusion. In: Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early Eighteenth-century Britain. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21119-7_7
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