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BEP(F.739.026
17 Sep 1739:21 (214)
From the Gentleman's Magazine for May 1739.
London. . . Monday, 21. . . Thursday being the anniversary
of the birth of Prince George his Royal Highness's eldest
son, was an extraordinary concourse of nobility, quality and
gentry at Norfolk House, to congratulate their Royal
Highnesses on the happy occasion. Sixty youths under 12
years, sons of eminent citizens, having form'd themselves
into a Lilliputian Company of Foot-soldiers, in proper
military cloathing, were brought in hackney coaches to
Norfolk House, where the Prince ordered them to alight and
enter; they marched in accordingly with drums beating,
colours flying, and musick playing before them; they were
admitted into the great drawing room, and had the honour to
kiss the hands of Prince George, Prince Edward, and the
Princess Augusta; the former had a hat and feather, with a
cockade.
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