English Party Leaders: The history of party leaders from Walpole to Pool takes in a century and a half of the most important period of not only the national but the world’s history …. Pitt … took a dislike to Hayes, sold it, purchased a villa at Hampstead, and there, too, endeavoured to surround himself with solitude, At Burton Pynsent, he conceived the idea of planting a considerable area with cedars, and as a sufficient supply could not be obtained in Somersetshire he ordered them to be send down from London, engaging relays of workmen to plant them and insisting that the work should go on all night …
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