‘What is loathsome is all your fumbling in placket-holes and polysyllabic Justification by Love.

Among the species which best characterise the undergrowth of conifers, on acid humus - and therefore in particular, but not only, in spruce woods - is the creeping and common interrupted clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum).

But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea. Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?