| 41. | Under Charles II, the councils became the sinecures of wealthy aristocrats despite various attempt at reform.
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| 42. | The office was then a sinecure and Rigby is said never to have sat as a judge.
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| 43. | These offices are sinecures, used in modern times to effect resignation from the House of Commons.
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| 44. | Chief among these sinecures was the lifetime appointment as Controller of Customs for the port of London.
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| 45. | He was also craner and wharfinger of the Port of Dublin, a sinecure abolished in 1830.
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| 46. | Being an Account of Persons, Places, and Sinecures, 1820 3, 2 vols.
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| 47. | He was given a sinecure on the Transport Board and continued in this position until its dissolution.
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| 48. | Yorke held a number of legal sinecures, secured for him by his father as Lord Chancellor.
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| 49. | He was also Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland : this office was apparently a sinecure.
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| 50. | They are paying the dues for all of us who pontificate profitably from the safety of journalistic sinecures.
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