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Sussex, England
Dec 2000 time: 05:14
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Lord Charles Monk writes to a fellow MP in Parliament…
Westminster Palace, 1691
My Lord Duke,
The colonists in Boston have founded the First Bank of America! It seems to have made them very happy anyway…
The King’s subjects in Scotland are also settling down well under the new regime. Indeed, Aberdeen is celebrating the King’s birthday this very month with a great fair in the town. Of course, the Presbyterians there have always loved our “Protestant Prince”. Nevertheless, it is gratifying to see, so recently after the pacification of the rebel Scottish lords.
Of considerable importance is the recent announcement by the Royal Society that a Northern Watchmaker (his name escapes me) has been awarded the prize for the first reliable method of determining one’s Longitude, purely from the observation of the time of local noon, and comparing it with the time in Greenwich. For which one needs, you may be sure, a prodigiously accurate timepiece, as it may have been many weeks since you left London. Anyway, the resultant boost to navigation should benefit our Trading Companies immensely – and thence, of course, the Exchequer. All especially good news, particularly considering the upcoming Foreign Entanglements, upon which our beloved King seems set.
Your obedient servant, Sir.
Charles Monk, 2nd Duke of Albemarle
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