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… Francis Dashwood (1708-1781), who had already acquired a rakish reputation during his Grand Tour. However, most of the information regarding his more outlandish deeds – wooing the Czarina by pretending to be Charles XII and flogging … writes that Dashwood ‘far exceeded in licentiousness of conduct, any thing exhibited since Charles the Second’, 13 his information is similarly secondhand and based on rumors. The exact date when Dashwood founded The Order of the Knights of …
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