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VGW(HU.774.056
19 May 1774:33 (1180)
London, April 1. Gloucester, January 4. This day a great
number of the inhabitants and voters of this town assembled
on the river, the same being entirely frozen over, our new
intended candidate having on Sunday last given away upwards
of 40l. in bread and other charities at the old church, and
left with his agent here 100 guineas, for the purpose of
merriment, to be disposed of by giving a bullock roasted
whole, and two hogsheads of ale, to the publick, and a ball
for the ladies in the evening. . . [10 lines on results of
ice giving way, drowning many.]
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