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He also closed clubs and broke up gatherings at taverns. The incident with Middleton was a party at the Rose Tavern, and involved drinking the health of the high Tory Henry Sacheverell on 3 July 1710, which Laughton reported to the authorities. The political atmosphere ahead of the general election of October 1710 was fraught: Laughton was a known Whig militant, and his action brought a tit-for- tat reprisal by Tories.historyofparliamentonline.org, Cambridge University 1690–1715.
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Kettlethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire Amcotts was the son of Vincent Amcotts and his wife Elizabeth Quincey, daughter of John Quincey of Aslackby, Lincolnshire and was baptised 25 June 1729. He was admitted at Trinity Hall, Cambridge on 29 April 1746 but was expelled on 9 June 1749 for drinking the health of the Young Pretender. In 1763 he was created DCL at Oxford University. He inherited the Lincolnshire properties of Harrington Hall from his father and Kettlethorpe Hall from his father's step-brother and was picked High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1753–54.
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In April 1637 he accepted an invitation to dine at the house of René de Renesse, 1st Count of Warfusée, who had been living in exile in Liège since the failure of the Conspiracy of Nobles (1632). Louis XIII's envoy in Liège, René-Louis de Ficquelmont, abbé de Mouzon, was also invited. At the banquet, after drinking the health of the King of France, La Ruelle was murdered by a party of Spanish soldiers that Warfusée had smuggled into Liège for the purpose. When the murder became known, popular reaction was extreme.
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There are also examples of early eighteenth century Jacobean drinking glasses which are inscribed with a version of the words and were apparently intended for drinking the health of King James II and VII. Scholes acknowledges these possibilities but argues that the same words were probably being used by both Jacobite and Hanoverian supporters and directed at their respective kings.Scholes p.412 In 1902, the musician William Hayman Cummings, quoting mid-18th century correspondence between Charles Burney and Sir Joseph Banks, proposed that the words were based on a Latin verse composed for King James II at the Chapel Royal.
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On 9 November 1678, Charles promised that he would sign any bill that would make them safe during the reign of his successor, so long as they did not impeach the right of his successor; this speech was widely misreported as Charles' having agreed to name the Duke of Monmouth as his successor, leading to celebratory bonfires throughout London, with crowds drinking the health of "the King, the Duke of Monmouth, and Earl of Shaftesbury, as the only three pillars of all safety." The citizens of London, fearing a Catholic plot on Shaftesbury's life, paid for a special guard to protect him. In December 1678, discussion turned to impeaching the Earl of Danby, and, to protect his minister, Charles II prorogued parliament on 30 December 1678. On 24 January 1679, Charles II finally dissolved the Cavalier Parliament, which had sat for 18 years.
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