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[Footnote 17: 1767, p. 691. The reference is given in the Register to 1753-1782 erroneously as p.
The force was afterwards increased, so that by the last return the whole number of troops then on the island amounted in the aggregate to 691 men.
The Manor of Fulham, as we have seen already, has belonged to the See of London since about 691, when it was given to Bishop Erkenwald and his successors by "Tyrtilus, a bishop, with the consent of Sigehard, king of the east Saxons and the king of the Mercians." Lysons adds that Tyrtilus, Bishop of Hereford, who he supposes is intended, was contemporary with Erkenwald.
A council of state was appointed, and into the oath to be taken by the Whitelock, 689, 690, 691. Clar. members was introduced a new and most comprehensive abjuration of kingship and the family of Stuart.
Proved by a document in the Orvieto Archives, containing a list of materials handed over by the Treasurer of the Works to Polidoro. See Vischer, p. 102. Now in the Opera del Duomo, Orvieto. The portrait of Signorelli in the frontispiece is the half of this painting. The letter is transcribed in Vischer, p. 356. Vasari, iii. 691.
If Egypt was really selected as the headquarters of the democracy, there was no time to be lost; otherwise Pompeius might easily arrive in Egypt sooner than Caesar. The conspiracy of 688, far from being broken up by the lax and timid measures of repression, was again astir when the consular elections for 691 approached.
The force was afterwards increased, so that by the last return the whole number of troops then on the island amounted in the aggregate to 691 men.
So died in 691 Mithradates Eupator, in the sixty-eighth year of his life and the fifty-seventh of his reign, twenty-six years after he had for the first time taken the field against the Romans. The dead body, which king Pharnaces sent as a voucher of his merits and of his loyalty to Pompeius, was by order of the latter laid in the royal sepulchre of Sinope.
Clar. Pap. iii. 674, 691. Gumble, 236. Feb. 9. subsequent dissolution and the calling of a new parliament. This speech was received with the loudest acclamations. The bells were tolled; the soldiers were feasted; bonfires were lighted; and among the frolics of the night was "the roasting of the rump," a practical joke which long lived in the traditions of the city.
In 1817 a new enumeration was substituted for the approximative estimates attempted in 1811. From the census of 1817 it appears that the total population of the island of Cuba amounted to 572,363. The number of whites was 257,380; of free men of colour, 115,691, and of slaves 199,292. In no part of the world where slavery prevails is emancipation so frequent as in the island of Cuba.
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