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Julia Ann Brown, formerly dep clerk to the Lieutenancy of Warks.
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He refused the Lord – Lieutenancy of his county; he declined every post of personal distinction connected with it.
Uncle Silas 2003
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He knew well enough that his Captaincy in the Dirty Half Hundred was worth -1500, exactly what it cost to purchase a mere Lieutenancy in the Guards, but so be it.
Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001
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The Gunner had no serious faults he could see—except, perhaps, the rank badges on her vest: Vrenn wondered if he ought to wait, just until his Lieutenancy came through in cold metal.
The Final Reflection John M. Ford 2000
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"And now you wish to give him the Lieutenancy of the Borders in preference to my father."
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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"And now you wish to give him the Lieutenancy of the Borders in preference to my father."
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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In 1784, he was induced by the young premier to accept the Lord-Lieutenancy of
Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Thomson Willing
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In 1795, when Jack was only eighteen, his corps was back in England and, through the influence of a distant relative, General Graeme, with the Duke of York, Commander in Chief of the Army and all powerful in days when promotion went avowedly by favour and purchase rather than by merit, Jack secured a Lieutenancy in the 19th Regiment.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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Lieutenancy had orders to administer the oaths to every officer and man, and any that refused were to be instantly cashiered and disarmed.
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Russell, the Prime Minister, urged on the House of Commons a bill for the abolition of the Lord-Lieutenancy.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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