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BEP(F.746.010
10 Mar 1746:22 (552)
Tunbridge Wells, Nov. 6. Yesterday being the 5th of
November, our young men assembled about eight o'clock round
the dial-post, with the Pretender in effigy in their middle;
they had on painted paper caps, guns on their shoulders, and
other military accoutrements; the Pretender was dress'd in a
coat of paper, a silver laced hat, a bag-wig, a cross on his
breast, beads in his hands, a halter round his neck, and on
horseback. They addressed themselves to the people in the
following manner:
Friends and Countrymen, This being the 5th of November,
we once more call upon you to commemorate our happy
deliverance from Popery and arbitrary power, to shew our
abhorrence of that execrable, inhuman and unnatural powder-
plot, which was on this day design'd to be put in execution.
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After which they gave a general discharge, with huzzas,
&c. then marched round Mount-Sion and Ephraim, with colours
flying, drums beating, and trumpets sounding, &c. before
them, the commanding officer marched before the Pretender,
who was tied on horseback with two men on each side to guard
him, and one behind, holding the halter in one hand and a
fork in the other;. . .
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