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The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction - Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831 by Various
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of the Manor of Brougham, died without issue male, and the estate
was sold to one Bird, who was steward of the Clifford family; the
heir male of the Brougham family then residing at Scales Hall, in
Cumberland. About 1680, John Brougham of Scales, re-purchased the
estate and manor of Brougham from Bird's grandson and entailed it
on his nephew, from whom it passed by succession to the Lord
Chancellor."]

[Footnote 2: The reader will find a concise narrative of the case of
Mr. Smith, at page 408, vol. iii. of the _Mirror_.]

[Footnote 3: In one day, during his visits to the freeholders, Mr.
Brougham spoke eight speeches to eight meetings, travelled 120 miles,
and entered court the next morning, wigged and gowned as if he had
never quitted his chambers.]

[Footnote 4: _Spectator_ Newspaper, No. 126.]

[Footnote 5: _Metropolitan_, edited by T. Campbell, Esq.--No. 1.]

[Footnote 6: _Spirit of the Age; or, Contemporary Portraits_, 1825. By
the late Mr. Hazlitt.]

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