Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The House of Lords and the House of Commoners in the 18th Century
In 1733 he insisted on giving the post of first lord of the admiralty to sir charles wager though no commoner had been thought worthy of that office since the accession of the house of Brunswick. The veteran himself thought a purely imaginary genealogy a better recommendation than his real services in harvey's list of the cabinet at the close of wall poles government Wager and sir robert are the only two commoners in the palum government which after a very short interval succeeded wall pole henry palum was the only commoner in the cabinet. A certain person asserted that he had heard a bishop the solicitor general in another drink at table to the health of the pretender
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