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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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( 29 ) Church, but Scotland leapt from abject poverty and savage rudeness into undreamt-of prosperity and culture. That the Union at first pleased neither Scotch nor English was to be anticipated. The displeasure of the Scotch found its expression in riots and in rhymes. The Scotch sang— ‘ Farewell to our Scottish fame, Farewell to our ancient glory, Farewell e’en to our Scottish name, So famed in martial glory.’ The English replied with a sneer at Queen Anne’s first speech from the throne— ‘The Queen has lately lost a part Of her entirely English heart; For want of which, by way of botch, She pieced it up again with Scotch.’ The social condition of the England of Queen Anne presented strange contrasts ; while retaining some of the evil practices of the Middle Ages, it began to develope the refinement of modern days. In the reign of Queen Anne the population of England and Wales was roughly estimated to be under 7,000,000 against 24,000,000 in our own time. Of these 7,000,000 no less than 1,330,000 were paupers, consequently one-fifth of its entire population was kept up at the expense of the country. In 1878 (I have not been able to obtain more recent statistics )
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