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AG-A.772.014
3 Aug 1772:23 (24)
[News from London] May 6. The present luxury of the times
may be easily estimated from the masquerade of last Thursday
evening. Two thousand persons at two guineas each, make four
thousand guineas; and if we rate the price of all the
various dresses at three guineas each (the money demanded at
Tavistock-street for the use only of a domino) we shall
immediately see that ten thousand guineas, besides the
expence of chair and coach hire, were lavished on the
entertainment of a single night, while our poor are
absolutely perishing for bread in various parts of the
Kingdom.
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