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… turtle was considered to be a means to secure social relationship. Gentlemen attending the club used to eat turtle with sobriety in amiable fellowship. The dinner registers of the Royal Society’s dining club attest the importance of turtle … starter and distraction between the first soup course and the second more substantial course’ (Plumb 73). Opposed to the sobriety and temperance of turtle dinners at the Royal Society, there were the turtle feasts organised by the city …
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