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built in 1676

The drunken and cowardly behaviour of the French troops led to their general being charged with betrayal of his country

Gladstone gives John Bull some pennies and his wife a packet of tea

In 1655 he was sent by Charles X as envoy extraordinary to Cromwell

'Musa Cliffortiana' [Clifford's banana plant] Billy Cotton Senior built in 1676Botanical studies of the leaves, flowers, stamen and other structures of a banana plant belonging to the banker and Dutch East India Company director George Clifford (1685 1760). Clifford's estate and gardens were at Hartenkamp in Holland. This banana was grown there in a heated glasshouse and is thought to a hybrid of Musa acuminate and Musa balbisiana and therefore a cultivar plantain. It was among the first, if not the first, plant of this type to

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