A mechanical employment
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"[After the execution of Charles I, 1649] The commons intended, it is
said, to bind the princess Elizabeth apprentice to a button-maker;
the duke of Gloucester was to be taught some other mechanical
employment. But the former soon died; of grief, as is supposed, for
her father's tragical end: the latter was, by Cromwell, sent beyond
sea."
(From The History of England, Ch.60 by David Hume.)
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Authors: ag