king-manufacturing

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Then he rode through Lincoln, and five other counties, dealing with recusant Anabaptists, as one of the "Major Generals;" demurred a little, at first, at the king-manufacturing conference, but finally came into the project; and, from a sense of duty, so far overcame his republican scruples as to allow himself to take a seat in the House of Lords, as one of the Oliverian peerage.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847