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BNL.769.034
4 May 1769:12 (3422 Supplement)
London, Jan. 25. Monday se'nnight the Earl of Corke
entertained a numerous and polite company of nobility and
gentry at Marston-House; near Frome, in Somersetshire, with
a masquerade ball and supper, which were allowed to be more
elegant than any thing of the kind ever seen in that part of
the country. . . [12 lines of descriptions of dress and
costumes, mentioning a Turk, Japanese, Cherokee Chief,
Methodist Preacher, Mother Cole, a Punch, Nuns and Friars,
Capt. Hacknum, Don Quixote, Mercury] No dominoes were
admitted.
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