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After this, the alderman, or one of his assessors, made a discourse on the laws of the land, and the duties of good subjects and good citizens. When these preliminaries were over, they proceede to try and determine, first the causes of the church, next the pleas of the crown, and last of all the controversies of private parties." 8 Henry's History of Great Britain, 348.
But there was a strained feeling at headquarters as if the decision had been made after a hard fight. Alderman Thomas Kelly, one of the oldest of the Sinn Feiners, told me that he had backed DeValera in his refusal to countenance a needless loss of life, and that it was only after a good struggle that their point had won.
Pendennis was wicked, mechant, perfectly abominable, and wondered what he would say when her back was turned. "Say! Say that you have the most beautiful figure and the slimmest waist in the world, Blanche Miss Amory, I mean. I beg your pardon. Another turn; this music would make an alderman dance." "And you have left off tumbling, when you waltz now?"
'Why, yes, we're thinking of it, Master, said Richard. 'We're rather in a hurry, you see, in case it should be Put Down first. 'Ah! cried Filer, with a groan. 'Put THAT down indeed, Alderman, and you'll do something. Married!
John Meredith Read, has gone farthest in unearthing facts which enlighten this obscurity; but with no better result than to establish certain strong probabilities as to Hudson's ancestry and antecedents. He was a freeman of London, a member of the Skinners Company, and sometime an alderman.
Three hearts are filled with thankfulness at every return of MISS HENDERSON'S THANKSGIVING DAY. IN one of the old-fashioned mansions which stand, or stood, on Broadway, lived Alderman Edgerton. Nothing could have induced Miss May Edgerton to reside six months in the old brick house had it not been inhabited by her grandmother before her, and been built by her great-grandfather.
The minister, Lord North, declared that the Alderman had misunderstood the views of our ancestors on the subject; as their desire had been, not that Parliament should be elected annually, but that it should sit every year, an end which had now been attained.
They seemed to be admirably seconded in their benevolent intentions towards the young Lord Glenvarloch, by the skill and eager zeal of the scrivener, whom Heriot had introduced to this piece of business, the most important which Andrew had ever transacted in his life, and the particulars of which were moreover agitated in his presence between an actual earl, and one whose wealth and character might entitle him to be an alderman of his ward, if not to be lord mayor, in his turn.
Baldwin seasoned high with compliments to the Jew upon his known liberality and generosity, and was trying to get him to enter into some security, which the Jew refused, saying that what he gave he gave willingly, but he would not enter into security: he added, that the alderman and his family had been unjustifiably extravagant; but on condition that all was given up fairly to the creditors, and a new course entered upon, he and his daughter would take care that the widow should be provided for properly.
About the year 1850 he appeared in the city of New York, and between that time and 1859 he was in the city of Chicago, where on one occasion and as the representative of some local party he was a candidate for alderman. He was also engaged for a time in the manufacture of boots and shoes at Troy, New York.
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