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  1. Irish Philosophy @[email protected] ·

    This @HistParl post unfairly maligning #Swords :) mas.to/@HistParl/1096644087225 mentions the Molesworth family who controlled at least one seat in the borough for much of the 18th century.

    The featured image is of #RobertMolesworth who created the essential definition of an Old Whig, translated #Francogallia and wrote "An Account of Denmark", both historically useful account and extended attack on #PassiveObedience and clerical control in politics. Also patron of #FrancisHutcheson & #JohnToland

    #swords #robertmolesworth #francogallia #passiveobedience #francishutcheson #johntoland
  2. Irish Philosophy @[email protected] ·

    #IrishPhilosophy and the #SouthSeaBubble

    #JohnToland lost all his money. He'd been so broke he'd had to use his patron #RobertMolesworth's name as a guarantor to invest.
    dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a

    Perhaps this & his own losses (plus his Old Whig principles) led #RobertMolesworth to call for the "contrivers...of the villanous South-Sea scheme" to be treated as those who killed their fathers in Ancient Rome: "tied in like manner in sacks, and thrown into the Thames.”
    econlib.org/book-chapters/chap

    #irishphilosophy #southseabubble #johntoland #robertmolesworth