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Robert Walpole and the Nature of Politics in Early Eighteenth-century Britain

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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

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  1. Beinecke, Osborn Shelves, Stair Letters, No. 3.

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  2. Lynch, The Independent Patriot (1737), p. 31.

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  3. Wodrow, Analecta, III, p. 156.

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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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