John Evelyn in City of London - 21 August, 1671
from Diary of John Evelyn, 21 August 1671 , page 185:
[August] 21. I dined in the Citty, at the fraternity feast in yron-mongers hall, where the 4 stewards chose their successors of the next yeare with a solemn procession, garlands about their heads & musique playing before them, so coming up to the uper Tables where the gentlemen sate, they drank to the new &c: and so we parted.
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John Evelyn, Diary of John Evelyn, 21 August 1671 . In De la Bédoyère, Guy (ed.), The Diary of John Evelyn (Woodbridge, 1995), p. 185. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1408530154483 accessed: 28 November, 2024
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Date/Time | 21 August, 1671 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by isobel.1111 on Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:22:34 +0100