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PG-P.731.032
10-17 Jun 1731:21,22 (135)
London. . . York, March 1. This being the Queen's birth-
day, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and aldermen, with all
the gentlemen in town, laid the foundation stone of the
theatre, which is to be erected on the plan of the Right
Hon. the Earl of Burlington, our Lord Lieutenant and
Governor. It is to be for all publick diversions, such as
Assemblies, concerts of musick, &c. and will be near 92 foot
in the front, (where will be a magnificent portico) and 136
feet in depth, and will consist of 7 rooms, one of which is
to be a spacious hall, after the Aegyptian manner, 112 feet
in length, and 40 in breadth, and the same in heighth, which
will have a colonade of 48 corinthian pillars supporting the
upper part of the building, which is to be adorned with the
like number of pillasters of the same order, windows being
between each, to the number of 44 for the convenience of
air; . . . [13 lines, laying of cornerstone] and the 12
bells of the Minster ringing, . . .
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