The remainder comes by way of knighthoods--after a year or two of power it was impossible to walk through the lobby without being jostled by knights--occasionally by a Privy Councillorship and always by a sense of personal importance. [Please select]
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"For this undertaking, Fontana was created a knight of the Golden Spur, and a Roman nobleman; he had a pension of 2000 crowns, transferable to his heirs, ten knighthoods, 5000 crowns of gold in ready money, and every description of material used in the work, which was valued at more than 20,000 crowns." [Please select]
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His plantation of Ulster by Scottish settlers has greatly affected history down to our own times, while the most permanent result of the awards by which he stimulated the colonisation of Nova Scotia has been the creation of hereditary knighthoods or baronetcies. [Please select]
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