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MG-A(G.763.012
17 Mar 1763:21 (932)
Leeds, [England] November 30. On Thursday the 18th instant
was married at Ealand, John Mason, widower, aged 75, to
Elizabeth Armitage, widow, aged 79, of Ealand workhouse,
where they had contracted a very intimate acquaintance;
They were brought from the workhouse, to church in a post-
chaise, with suitable attendance; from whence they adjourned
to the Parish-clerk's, where they dined with the town
officers and other principal inhabitants. After dinner the
bride walked a minuet with one of the attendants, as did
also the bridegroom with a young woman of neighbourhood; and
to shew his extraordinary agility, he would afterwards
divert the company by dancing a hornpipe. They were both
very thankful to the present Overseers for permitting them
to be married, for (as the Bride expressed it) They had
better be married than do worse.
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