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1175:Donaldson
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1080:Lyndhurst
1035:Fortescue
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317:barrister
307:in 1705.
287:Education
261:Ebrington
112:1730–1736
108:In office
65:In office
1263:Politics
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1190:Phillips
1165:Evershed
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930:Cromwell
485:cottised
408:to him.
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