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Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… of Quebec, 1790, p. 40-41. Reproduced with kind permission from a copy kept in Image Laurie & Whittle, ‘A Vestry Dinner’, 21 April 1795, The British Museum, 518692001. © The Trustees of the British Museum. … and civic authorities of a ‘Puritan’ persuasion increasingly frowned upon. Image Legend Laurie & Whittle, ‘A Vestry Dinner’, 21 April 1795, The British Museum, 518692001. © The Trustees of the British Museum. …
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… became an emblem of gentility, sobriety, fellowship and sociable relations to such an extent that, as attested by the dinner register of the Royal Society ’s dining club, a gentleman who wished to be accepted as an Honorary Member of the …
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