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He subsequently boasted that he had been promised a barony as compensation, if he failed to secure a seat in the parliamentary elections, and the lieutenancy of
Leicestershire. The privy council were initially lenient, but when it was widely reported that he had said he 'cared for never a Lord in
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England a fart, except the Lord of Hosts', he was summoned before the House of Lords and committed to the Fleet Prison. Four days later the house heard his apologies and ordered that they be published at the next assizes in
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subsequently accused of adultery, his wife 'both for safeguard of her honour, blemished by him scandalously, and for her alimony or maintenance (being glad to get from him) … was forced to endure a suit in the High
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