The siege lasted for forty-eight days, and Gibson provides a detailed account of the battle in his journal which was presented to the King, George II of Great Britain, and published in London's' Gentleman's Magazine' under the title' A Journal of the Late Siege by the Troops from North America against the French at Cape Breton, the City of Louisburg and the Territories Thereunto Belonging : Surrendered to the English on 17 June 1745 After a Siege of Forty-Eight Days .
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And albeit we perceive and know right well, that there be as well disposed and as well conscienced men of your Grace's Commons, in no small number assembled, as ever we knew in any Parliament; yet we be not so ignorant, but that we understand that sinister information and importuante labours and persuasions of evil disposed persons, pretending themselves to be thereunto moved by the zeal of justice and reformation, may induce right wise, sad, and constant men to suppose such things to be true, as be not so indeed.
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According to Samuel's statement, the reason he sent the children away was " as the apparent likeness & resemblance & to Jacob Blakeway ", quoting from : " A true declaracon of the disposing of the fower children of Katherine More sett downe by Samuell More her husband " together with the " reasons movinge him thereunto accasioned by a peticon " of hers to the Lord Chief Justice of England and it is endorsed, " Katherine Mores Petition to the Lord Chief Justice . . . the disposing of her children to Virginia dated 1622 ".
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The naming and registration of official clan tartans began on 8 April 1815, when the Highland Society of London ( founded 1778 ) resolved that all the clan chiefs each " be respectfully solicited to furnish the Society with as Much of the Tartan of his Lordship's Clan as will serve to Show the Pattern and to Authenticate the Same by Attaching Thereunto a Card bearing the Impression of his Lordship's Arms . " Many had no idea of what their tartan might be, but were keen to comply and to provide authentic signed and sealed samples.
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According to Samuel's statement, the reason he sent the children away was " as the apparent likeness & resemblance & to Jacob Blakeway ", quoting from : " " A true declaracon of the disposing of the fower children of Katherine More sett downe by Samuell More her late husband together with the reasons movinge him thereunto accasioned by a peticon of hers to the Lord Chief Justice of England " and it is endorsed, Katherine Mores Petition to the Lord Chief Justice . . . the disposing of her children to Virginia dated 1622 " ".
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"To all to whom these presents shall come greeting : Know ye that reposing special trust and confidence in the Integrity and Ability of Rebecca Frances Roe of Kansas, I have nominated and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint her Secretary of Transportation and do authorize and empower her to execute and fulfill the duties of that Office according to law, and to have and to hold the said office with all the powers and privileges thereunto of right appertaining, unto her the said Rebecca Frances Roe during the pleasure of the President of the United States for the time being
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"Reposing special trust and confidence in your Integrity, Prudence and Ability, I have nominated and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint you a Foreign Service Officer, a Consular Officer, and a Secretary in the Diplomatic Service of the United States of America, and do authorize and empower you to do and perform all such matters and things as to the said offices do appertain, and to have and to hold the said offices, and to exercise and enjoy all the rights, privileges and immunities thereunto appertaining, during the pleasure of the President of the United States.
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LORD MAYOR and BENJAMIN HOPKINS ESQ CHAMBERLAIN in CONSIDERATION of the ADVANTAGES likely to accrue to the PUBLIC by his INVENTION of FIRE PLATES for securing buildings from FIRE and for his respectful attention to this CITY in his repeated EXPERIMENTS performed before many of the members of the COURT . The RECORD of which EXPERIMENTS and also of his admission into the FREEDOM of the said CITY of LONDON is entered in the BOOK signed with the letter R [ & ? ] c IN WITNESS whereof the SEAL of the Office of CHAMBERLAIN thereunto affixed DATED in the GUILD-HALL of the same CITY the 26th . day of March in the 17th.
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The Act declared that " whensoever and as often as it shall happen that his said Majestie shall be absent or continue out of this Realme of England It shall and may be lawfull for the Queens Majestie to exercise and administer the Regall Power and Government of the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwicke-upon-Tweede and the Plantations and Territories thereunto belonging in the Names of both their Majestyes for such time onely dureing their joynt Lives as his said Majestie shall be absent or continue out of this Realme of England any thing in the said Act [ the Bill of Rights ] to the contrary notwithstanding ".
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Item that carpenters masons and tilers and other workmen of houses shall not take by the day further work except in the manner as they were wont to do, that is to say, a master carpenter 3 d and other carpenters 2 d; a master mason 4 d and other masons 3 d and their servants 1?d; tilers 3 d and their boys 1?d; and other coverers of fern and straw 3 d and their boys 1?d; plasterers and other worker of mud walls and their boys, in the same manner without meat and drink that is from Easter to Michaelmas and from that time less according to the rate and discretion of the justices who shall be assigned thereunto.
