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PG-P.746.003
25 Feb 1746:23 (898)
London. . . November 5. Among the several rejoicings upon
his Majesty's birth-day, there was something so particularly
drole and comical transacted at Deptford, that we shall
venture to entertain our readers with an account of it.
The Deptford Procession.
1. A Highlander in his proper dress, carrying on a pole a
pair of wooden shoes, with this motto, 'The newest make from
Paris'. . . [23 lines, describing other objects.]
The procession was preceded and closed by all sorts of
rough music, and after a march round the town, the Pope and
the Pretender were in the evening committed to the flames,
according to custom; but not till they had been first
confessed, absolved, and purged with holy water, by the
Jesuit.
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