Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Importance of Secret Service Money in Wall Poles Administration
During 10 years of wall poles administration to less than an annual average of 79,000 pounds and that according to Cox is much less than the sum expanded for similar purposes during a similar term of office before the revolution. It would be childish to deny we shall presently come upon an instance where nine hundred pounds was paid to two members of the house of commons for their support parenthesis below page 195 and parenthesis let us take that as incontrovertible. The fact that the king grumbled loudly at a transaction which cost no more than nine hundred pounds shows that such transactions did not usually mount up to a very large proportion of 144,000 pounds a year. Even in our day no British
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