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PG-P.760.022
15 May 1760:32 (1638)
On Thursday, the first instant, the public commencement was
held in the college of this city, before a vast concourse of
people of all ranks and distinctions. . . [15 lines,
graduates and participants]
The orations, disputations, and other academical
exercises, were agreeable intermixed with sundry anthems and
pieces of psalmody, sung by the Charity-boys, attended with
an organ, which the liberality of the town lately bestowed.
At the close of the whole, the audience was most
delightfully entertained with two anthems sung by several
ladies and gentlemen, who have not been ashamed to employ
some of their leisure hours in learning to celebrate their
maker's praises with grace and elegance.
One of the students, who received his Master's degree on
this occasion, conducted the organ with that bold and
masterly hand, for which he is celebrated; and several of
the pieces were also his own composition. In a word, the
whole gave great satisfaction. . .
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