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Page 139
... Halifax and Orford of the Junto , the two princi- pal targets of the Commissioners of Public Accounts in the years 1702-4 . Both lords had escaped the net of impeachment spread for them in 1701 ; but the Tories obviously hoped to enmesh ...
... Halifax and Orford of the Junto , the two princi- pal targets of the Commissioners of Public Accounts in the years 1702-4 . Both lords had escaped the net of impeachment spread for them in 1701 ; but the Tories obviously hoped to enmesh ...
Page 204
... Halifax's brother , Sir James Montagu . That the prejudice was irrational made his task no easier . As Solicitor - General during the previous session of Parliament , Sir James had remained more loyal to the Court than most of his ...
... Halifax's brother , Sir James Montagu . That the prejudice was irrational made his task no easier . As Solicitor - General during the previous session of Parliament , Sir James had remained more loyal to the Court than most of his ...
Page 239
... Halifax , a vain and prickly little man with a restless , ambitious , striving spirit which may well have had its roots in an inbred sense of inferiority , 73 was in many ways the least reliable of the five as a colleague , especially ...
... Halifax , a vain and prickly little man with a restless , ambitious , striving spirit which may well have had its roots in an inbred sense of inferiority , 73 was in many ways the least reliable of the five as a colleague , especially ...
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