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BNL.714.001
11-18 Jan 1714:12 (509)
Hague, July 19. N.S. On the 15th the Earl of Strafford
returned from Utrecht, and yesterday being the day appointed
by her Majesty for a general Thanksgiving for the peace, he
made a magnificent ball and masquerade with an
entertainment, at which all the foreign ministers, except
the emperor's, were present, together with the chief members
of the republick, and other person of distinction, who came
from all parts of Holland for that purpose. There were
above five hundred tickets distributed, notwithstanding
which several crouded in without tickets, and most of them
were very richly mask'd. . . [3 lines]
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