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Original Title: TIL James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale exercised influence over “rotten” boroughs like Cockermouth and had an affair with a tenant upon whose death he refused burial and placed her decaying corpse in a glass-topped coffin in a cupboard. He was often called “the Earl of Toadstool” or “Wicked Jimmy.”