Accounts of Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds [manuscript], 1677 December 22-1678 December 20.

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Accounts of Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds [manuscript], 1677 December 22-1678 December 20.

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Daily household expenses at the Cockpit, London, and separate ones at Hampden House, April 20-June 21 and September 21-December 20, 1678.

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Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of, 1631-1712

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Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby (1631/32-1712), son of a Yorkshire baronet, entered Parliament as member for York in 1661, served Charles II in a series of adminstrative positions, and was made Lord High Treasurer and Earl of Danby in 1674. In 1678, he pressed for the investigation of the Popish Plot, but the Commons impeached him in December of that year for his involvement in the French "subsidies" to Charles II. Released from the Tower in 1684, Danby supported William III and was rewarded with ...