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BNL.719.006
20-27 Apr 1719:21 (784)
Glasgow, Jan. 19. On the 16th we received advice that the
bill for strengthening the Protestant interest was passed
both Houses of Parliament, which occasioned great joy among
the inhabitants of this city, who are almost to a man,
hearty friends to the present government. But as the English
and Irish students in our university, were more immediately
concerned in it, they thought themselves obliged to give
some publick testimony of their joy on this account to which
end they waited on the nobility and principal gentry then in
town, and professors of the university, who after having
congratulated them on this news, were pleased to accept of
an invitation from the said students at a tavern about 6 in
the evening, where the windows were illuminated, and they
had a good consort of musick, and after super good wines to
drink the King's health, &c.
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