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SCGCJ.772.099
27 Oct 1772:22 (361)
London, August 31. Thursday last the battalion of the Royal
Train of Artillery, quartered at Greenwich for the purpose
of review on Black Heath by his Majesty, marched from thence
for Chartham Barracks. They were a very handsome corps of
young men, who greatly attracted the notice of the young
women of that town by their civil and polite behaviour; and
during their stay got greatly in their good graces, insomuch
that it is computed near 20 lasses went off with them. The
drums beat the march about two o'clock in the morning, at
which early hour the young girls took the opportunity of
leaving their beds, and slipped out unknown to their
families, so that in one street near the church, where they
kept a guard, there was not a servant-maid that was handsome
to be found when the family got up, excepting two, who,
being very handsome, and their mistresses have some
suspicions, locked all the doors over night and secured the
keys, to the great disappointment of the poor girls.
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