Disfranchised Boroughs in Wilts: … … William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was first returned to Parliament in 1735 for the vacant mounds which went by the name of old Sarum. The whole of the West Country was full of the fame of the elder Pitt. Sir William Pynsent, the last of his name, bequeathed Pynsent to the great Minister “in his veneration of a great character of exemplary virtue and unrivalled ability.” In his days of gout and magnificence he was laid up at Marlborough for several weeks with old enemy. Passing travellers, who were told the great Chatham lay in the Castle in pain, were profoundly impressed, as it was intended that they should be, with the army of footmen and grooms, and valets of all classes and degrees, that swarmed about the borough in the service of the invalid.
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