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Pop Goes the Weasel by Albert Jack – Review
Pop Goes the Weasel by Albert Jack
Beep goes the cash till, sings Jeremy Noel-Tod
Did you know that “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” was a late 18th-century satire on the so-called “Chancery Advancements” affair?
The Lord Chancellor, Thomas Barber, was found to have been selling his fellow judges promises of preferment from George III (“the master”), Queen Charlotte (“the dame”), and William Pitt the Younger (“the little boy who lives down the lane”).
Review: Pop Goes the Weasel by Albert Jack – Telegraph.
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