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    MY LORD,

    The Last time I had the honour of being in your Lordships company

I will be honest. I couldn't read past this. I just couldn't. I hope you do not fail to see the point.

What's your point? Sorry, I am but a humble unAmerican and might be hard of understanding.

It is a level of groveling that no free man should willingly endure, nor require.

It's a traditional form of address.

The proto-US people kept slaves at the time. That's worse.

> What's your point?

My inference is the reference to deference