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PC.767.212
21-28 Dec 1767:1964 (1/49)
Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, Oct. 2. Yesterday
afternoon came on, at the Palace of Holyrood-house here the
election of two Peers to serve in Parliament in the room of
the Earls of Hyndford and Moray, deceased. There were about
thirty peers present (among them were the dukes of
Buccleugh, Athol, and Gordon) besides proxies; and they
unanimously made choice of his grace the duke of Gordon, and
the right Hon. the Earl of Strathmore, to be two of the
sixteen peers to represent Scotland in the house of Lords.
After the election was over the two new peers entertained
their brethren most elegantly at dinner. In the evening
there was a brilliant assembly.
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