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BNL.745.007
28 Mar 1745:11 (2138)
London, November 7. They write from New Ross in Ireland,
that it was no sooner known in that town that the Hon. James
Annesley and Daniel M'Kerchey Esqrs. and the other gentlemen
of their company were coming thither in their way to Dumain,
than above a hundred horsemen went to meet them six miles
out of town; they were met about a mile from the town by all
the inhabitants, men, women and children, to the number of
four or five thousand people with garlands, musick, dancing,
bonfires, along the road, and other demonstrations of joy.
In this manner they enter'd the town, which rung all over
with repeated acclamations of the populace; notwithstanding
a certain peer, and his emissaries, had come to town the
night before in order to overawe the people. After about an
hour's stay at Ross they proceeded to Dunmain, the place of
Mr. Annesley's birth, where all the inhabitants of the
country, to the number of three or four thousand, were
assembled a quarter of a mile from the house to receive
them; there were garlands, and a long dance, compos'd of two
hundred young men and women, all neatly dress'd with
cockades, and knots of ribbands the colour of the Anglesey
livery; and in the evening there were bonfires in all the
villages round Dumain.
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