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When night came on, the company retired into the house, where they danced in
different apartments, and supped without interrupting the jollity of the tenants and
other farmers in the hall,—It is computed there were not less than a thousand persons,
who partook of the different entertainments of the day.

The following verses were sent by an unknown hand upon the occasion---

On the Birth-Day of R.A.N. compleating his 21st Year.——By a LADY

And will no muse, at female call,
Attend to grace this festival;
To say one handsome honest truth,
For this fine handsome honest youth,
Whose bright revolving suns have run
To the wish’d goal of twenty-one;
Come then, ye symphs, with zealous care
The festive garland to prepare
There let a sprig of oak appear,
Pluck’d from the choicest branches here;
And let the lilly, and the rose,
With Venus’ plant, the wreath compose,
Becoming well his brows, to wear
Amidst the brave, the good, and fair;
Whilst the pleas’d muse prophetic cries’
“Let him. Who merits, bear the prize!”
But...not to teaze him with my rhyme…
Let him remember, in due time.
That, to preserve an honest fame,
A Knight must have an honest Dame,
But soft…’tis time to drop my pen;
Muse, we’ll be cautious with the men;
Yet we must look with reptur’d eye
On him, (the fair example nigh)
Who now, that his career of youth is run,
Enjoys a second youth in such a son.

Billingbear, July 3rd, 1771

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The ensuing installation of Knights of the Garter, will hold from the 25 to the 29
instant

His Majesty and the Royal Family will continue three or four days at Windsor:---It
is said the day after the installation there will be a public breakfast, and a drawing-
room at noon.

This day was found, with his throat cut, at Atwood, near Burnham, Bucks, James
Denchen. Late shepherd to Mr. John Edgson of Britwell. He had been missing upward
of a fortnight.

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