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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 7 of 8: With Biographical and Historical Memories of Their Lives and Actions
This nobleman was now, very deservedly, one of the first objects of the gratitude of the new rulers. On the fourteenth of February, 1689, he was sworn oftheir Privy Council; was immediately after appointed Lord Steward of the Royal Household; and, on the third of April following, received the Order of the Carter. The station of Lord Lieutenant of the county of Derby, of which he had been deprived by Charles the Second, was also restored to him the proceedings against him on the affair of Colepeper were reversed by Parliament, and voted a high breach of privilege; and the judges who had pronounced the sentence of fine and imprisonment were called8 william cavendish, first duke OF devonshire.
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