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1 Feb. 1810
Sinecures

Clerkship of Case Pleas give to a bad practice

As to the chief of capital prizes among those windfalls, and in partic I
question whether in any place, even in the House of Commons and even under the hardest
pressure any Minister or any publicman would venture
to say ever have been applied to any such purpose
as that of serving for the reward of real public services
of the draughts made upon the public purse in any in such manner as to reduce in any degree the amount.

F To go no higher than the present reign –
one from in which any light on this subject can be obtained –
in any shape either
upon the public or upon
individuals.† † So 2 Finance Comm. 3 Page 125

Two of these, one the both Irish ones, viz. the Common King's
Phar Bench Clerk of the Crown sinecure of £12,000 £12,511 odd a year, and the Exchequer Court of Common Pleas
Sinecure of £11,000 £11,094 odd a year, have been were seized
by three two successive Lord Lieutenants: the King's Bench
£12,000 sinecure by the then Earl afterwards Marquis of Hertford, by whom
that situation was occupied in a part of each of two years 1765
and 1766, and who obtained it for the lifes lives of two of his
Sons: the Common Pleas Exchequer SineCure of £11,000 odd enjoyed at present by
the Earl of Buckinghamshire elder brother and last predecessor in the title peerage whose father was Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland for about three years from 1776 to 1779, and who was himself
was for some time Lord Lieutenant's Secretary under the Earl of Westmoreland
for about three years between 1789 and 1793.
For about year or four years between 1801 and 1805 the
Earl of Hardwicke was Lord and Lieutenant: and to
this Lord Vice Royalty the suitors, whose misfortune
it will be to be stand in need of such justice as if will be
to be sold purchased in the Common Pleas side of the Court of Exchequer,
will be indebted for the privilege advantage of continuing to purchase purchasing it of the
last survivor of the Noble Earls three sons. of

Identifier: | JB/147/162/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	20 or 1 - 21 or 2
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	162	Info in main headings field	Sine Cures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D10 / E1
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49387
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