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CG-NL.768.048
19 Aug 1768:21 (249)
London, May 21. An odd wedding was celebrated last week in
a village in Berkshire. The bridegroom was 85 years of age,
the bride 83, the father 91, and the two women who
officiated as bride-maids, each above 70; neither of those
women had ever been married, though both of them had been
mothers. Six grand-daughters of the bridegroom strewed
flowers before the company in their way to and from church,
and after dinner some grandsons of the bride sang a kind of
epithalamium, which the clerk of the parish had written on
the occasion.
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