"I was with you, Mr. Scott—till I heard your argument."
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Related by John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, in Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 79.
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Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (9 December 1731 – 12 September 1806) was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1778 to 1783, and again from 1783 to 1792.
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