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Author: Armagan Ekici
Date: March 22, 2015
Annotation author: Armagan Ekici
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put on his topboots to ride to Dublin
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This is one of the best in-jokes in the book. The actual MP, Sir John Blackwood reportedly *died* in the act of putting on his boots to go to vote *against* the act of Union. (see Jeri Johnson, p. 779)