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BC.768.073
1-8 Aug 1768:3132 (1/34)
[London] May 21. . . An odd wedding was celebrated last
week in a village in Berkshire: The bridegroom was 85 years
of age, the bride 83, the father 91, and the two women who
officiated as bride-maids, each above 70; neither of those
women had ever been married, though both of them had been
mothers. Six grand-daughters of the bridegroom strewed
flowers before the company in their way to and from church,
and after dinner four grandsons of the bride sung a kind of
epithalamium, which the clerk of the parish had written on
the occasion.
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