... Downs approach of the General Election brings to mind that 250 years ago in Gloucester at election times, supporters of the Whig Party made it their business to frequently toast their candidates with punch. This was a drink bitterly condemned in Tory pamphlets ...

... execution on Tower Hill. The son of Charles 11. and Lucy Walters, Monmouth who was a strong anti-Catholic and friend of the Whig Party, was himself one of the wealthiest men in England through his marriage to the Countess of Buccleuch, regarded by con ...