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BNL.734.001
3-10 Jan 1734:11 (1563)
On the 25th of July, being S. James's Day, the Society of
journeymen taylors made their annual procession as usual
through Dublin. They were all clean and neatly dressed, but
more particularly their master, steward, and ensign-bearers,
who were dignified with hats and feathers, fringed linnen
and gloves, and attended with variety of musick, being also
preceded by two figures, representing our first parents,
dressed in leaves, after the fall, to who they, to prevent
any insult from the wicked of the times, gave a terrifying
hussar for a guard: But the procession was very much
disturbed, and most of the taylors terribly frightened by a
wild colt, which broke in among them, and did a great deal
of mischief. Their bill of fare for dinners, . . . [9
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