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Brigadier Sutton, [7] and I, dined together; and I made the Vice-Chamberlain take a snap with us, rather than stay till five for his lady, who was gone to the race.
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Mr. Coke, the Vice-Chamberlain, made me a long visit this morning, and invited me to dinner; but the toast, his lady, [20] was unfortunately engaged to
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The Vice-Chamberlain, [16] and Mr. Masham, and the Green Cloth, [17] have promised me dinners.
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Newton as Warden of the Mint in 1727, and was Vice-Chamberlain to
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I dined to-day at the Green Cloth, where everybody had been at the race but myself, and we were twenty in all, and very noisy company; but I made the Vice-Chamberlain and two friends more sit at a side table, to be a little quiet.
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[Footnote 7: Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, who in 1674 was preacher at the Rolls Chapel.] [Footnote 8: Burlington, Anglesey, Kingston, and Boyle.] [Footnote 9: Heningham.] [Footnote 10: The Vice-Chamberlain.]
Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry Edmund Goldsmid
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-- To-day the Vice-Chamberlain of the Household bore a message from the KING in reply to the Address.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 Various
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John Hervey (1696-1743), younger son of John, first Earl of Bristol; known as Lord Hervey after the death of his elder brother Carr in 1723; Vice-Chamberlain of George II's Household,
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925
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Whatever the true story, the day after the Duchess's interview with the King (February 27th, 1729), William Stanhope, the Vice-Chamberlain, carried to the Duchess a verbal message not to come to Court; whereupon she sat down and wrote a letter for him to take to his Majesty.
Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Melville, Lewis 1921
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At the age of twenty he obtained the doctorate in law, at the University of Padua, and revealed such talents for diplomacy that Paul III named him successively Governor of the City of Rome, Vice-Chamberlain
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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