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PP-P.772.022
23 Mar 1772:22 (22)
London, Nov. 30. On Wednesday night a masquerade was held
at a public-house in St. Giles's; the company consisted of
lawyers clerks, hair-dressers, shoe-makers, taylors, and
second-hand gamblers; all choice spirits. The ladies were
chiefly from the hundreds of Drury-Lane. The characters
exhibited were shepherds and shepherdesses, dust-men, poets,
chimney-sweepers, &c. They danced till twelve, and sat down
to supper at one, when the glasses went merrily round; but
all on a sudden, the harmony of the company was destroyed by
a dispute between a noted hair-dresser and a notorious
gambler, who from words proceeded to blows, till all the
company were engaged, the tables overset, and every thing
turned into uproar and confusion; at last, however, the war
was put an end to by the coming in of constables, and
watchmen, who carried the principal combatants to the Round-
House, dismissing the rest with a promise of never being
seen there more. This rout has been but lately established,
and was to have been held once a week, as a winter amusement
for the youth and young bucks of that part of town.
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