... ed crowns: and a Street Whig. named Joseph White, was taken unconscious into Cyrus Clark's house. The Street constable (Sir Robert Peel's reforms had scarcely reached Somerset), a stout and worthy man named Josiah White. a Whig like the rest, and like ...

... the voters from Wells and Glastonbury. Poor Josiah White was fined £5 for his valour and another for being constable. The 'Whig candidate, however, was so pleased with his Street supporters that he paid all their fines—a matter of zoo odd. ...

... Sherwood Forest are the Dukeries. In the 18th century the huge mansions clustered together here were the homes of the great Whig dukes. Years ago some of them had to be closed down. As one motored through this glorious part of the forest and noticed the ...

... of 1688, which brought about his fall, handed over his reputation at the same time to the mercy of his bitterest enemies, Whig historians alone recorded his actions and appraised his motives and character. Fox's Historyof James 11., Oldmixon's History ...

... keep them there for a fortnight at their own expense. But generally a compromise was effected, and the seats were shared—one Whig and one Tory. Thus in 1807 only nine contested elections took place in the counties of England, and in 1812 only two. But the ...

... during tne delivery of the excellent remarks made Mr Klnglake who countv magistrate of twenty years' standing, professing old Whig or modern Liberal-Conservative principles, that, it cannot said that his advocacy of the cause of the labourers is the result ...