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Wearing an old Etonian tie under his red muffler, Britain's 34-year-old Earl of Kinnoull fretfully paced the deck of the trawler Mino which was anchored olf Southampton last week while customs officials nosed around the ship's hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing...
...with an account of the found ing of Rhode Island, moves through a realistic explanation of the liberal charter of Connecticut, the rivalry between the colonies and their intrigues in England, the collapse of the ill-fated New Haven col ony, and ends with the fall of the absolute lordship in Maryland in 1691. Its high point is in its account of the confusion in the New England colonies that followed the restoration of Charles II, the masterly diplomacy that saved them from punishment for their support of Cromwell. In 1643, Roger Williams had sold his trading house in Narragansett...
...Birkett: "I assume what Your Lordship has in mind...
Birkett: "I think, with great deference, that Your Lordship may have in mind what is known as 'ordinary hotel evidence' where the name of the lady is not disclosed. With respect, I thought that might have been in your Lordship's mind...
...Lordship of Chichester had first to decide whether the Buntings were responsible for their suicide, which in turn would decide their right to Christian burial. Next he had to deal with the deplorable scandal of an Anglican curate's son breaking the Fifth Commandment, Honor thy father and thy mother. Last week he publicly adjured James Bunting to repent of his sins, informed him that until further notice he may not partake of Holy Communion in any church in the diocese of Chichester...