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Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… provoke all those whom it was to have disgraced, that the Tories were by far the greatest number in the New Parliament. One thing was a part of the bargain that the Tories had made, that the Lieutenancy of London should be … Balance. The Bishop brought in a List of the most violent Tories in the City, who had been engaged in some of the worst …
The Aldermen of the City of London
… (follower of North). Against: T. Harley, B. Hammett (Tories); J. Wilkes, Sir W. Lewes, J. Townsend (Whigs). 14. … This was an attempt on the part of the extreme Tories to overcome the resistance of the Whig majority in the … Conformity Bill as a clause of a money bill. The moderate Tories, though they had supported the Bill in the Commons, …
Old and New London
… Barton Booth stimulated the rival parties of Whigs and Tories in Addison's famous tragedy of Cato. Of this piece … line in which liberty was mentioned as a satire, on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt. …