The Emperor shared in the general satisfaction, and presented the impostors with the riband of an order of knighthood, to be worn in their button-holes, and the title of " Gentlemen Weavers."
237,000 people signed a petition objecting to the award for a man " responsible for some of the cruellest, most extreme welfare reforms this country has ever seen" .
There are, in fact, five hereditary peers who took a life peerage. Stephen got the point. Five hereditary peers who took a life peerage so they could stay in the House of Lords when hereditaries were thrown out.
His lordship added, " That he would not, by any further particulars, prevent the pleasure I should certainly take in viewing the grand academy, whither he was resolved I should go" .
Not only did the play contain passages that appeared to mock the king's practice of selling knighthoods for money, It also contained passages that appeared to mock the Scots.