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Page 358
... pensioners , and official nominees to seats where the patronage was in the control of a government department , minister or dependant . But in Anne's reign the Court was not so fortunate . Contrac- tors and pensioners with seats in the ...
... pensioners , and official nominees to seats where the patronage was in the control of a government department , minister or dependant . But in Anne's reign the Court was not so fortunate . Contrac- tors and pensioners with seats in the ...
Page 360
... pensioners could make to the Court interest in the Lower House . What made this contribution not merely small but entirely negligible , however , was the political behaviour of the recipients . Harley , for example , apparently ...
... pensioners could make to the Court interest in the Lower House . What made this contribution not merely small but entirely negligible , however , was the political behaviour of the recipients . Harley , for example , apparently ...
Page 388
... pensioners ' , although not all the pensions or bounties involved were official and fewer still were regularly paid . Indeed 12 of these peers were Whigs ; and since Oxford was never one to dispense public money when the expectation of ...
... pensioners ' , although not all the pensions or bounties involved were official and fewer still were regularly paid . Indeed 12 of these peers were Whigs ; and since Oxford was never one to dispense public money when the expectation of ...
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