Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.Malcolm, James Peller
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.
Malcolm, James Peller
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
"And that this Court may form some judgment of the manner of
the entertainment, your Committee have hereunto subjoined
the bill of fare of their Majesty's table, and the totals of
the several bills on this occasion, amounting to 6898_l._
5_s._ 4_d._; which, your Committee have the satisfaction to
acquaint this Honourable Court, have been all ordered for
payment.
"Your Committee, likewise, having provided a great variety
of the choicest wines, took care that every guest should
be supplied with plenty and dispatch; and yet the various
services performed without hurry or confusion.
"For this purpose your Committee issued no more tickets for
admission than what (considering the necessary number of
attendants, amounting to two hundred and forty persons) would
fill the Hall without incommoding the Royal Personages for
whom the feast was intended.
"And to prevent as much as possible the intrusion of
strangers (too frequent on such occasions) your Committee
directed a temporary porch to be erected in the front of the
Hall, where gentlemen of trust were placed at three several
bars.
"Upon the whole, your Committee omitted no care or pains
to render the entertainment as commodious and agreeable as
possible to the Royal Guests, and in some measure expressive
of the zeal and veneration of this Honourable Court for
their august Sovereign, his most amiable Consort, and
illustrious Family, and of their sense of his gracious
condescension in honouring this City with his Royal Presence:
happy if they have in any degree answered expectation, and
are allowed to have done justice to the honourable trust
reposed in them. Signed this 15th day of June, 1762.
"_S. Fludyer_,
_Robert Alsop_,
_Richard Glyn_,
_Francis Gosling_,
_Thomas Long_,
_Robert Wilsonn_,
_Francis Ellis_,
_Henry Kent_,
_James Walton_,
_Charles Meredith_,
_John Rivington_,
_Thomas Cogan_,
_Edward Waldo_,
_W. Reeves_,
_Samuel Freeman_,
_William Tyser_,
_John Paterson_."
THE KING'S TABLE.
FIRST SERVICE*.
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