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servant in the place from the waiter to the stable boy 

 should wear his livery. Now I do not know what the 

 livery of the noble Lord was, but it was very well known 

 to the England of his day, and as gout kept him in his 

 room at the Castle for several weeks, and as the establish- 

 ment of that inn (temporarily clothed as his servants) 

 was the largest in England, the good town of Marl- 





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A Quaint Corner in Marlborough. 



borough simply exhaled its distinguished visitor. People 

 ran against his attendants at every turn. The streets 

 swarmed with them. The inn was alive. The name 

 of Chatham was on every lip, and the great tide of travel 

 which ebbed and flowed night and day along the Bath 

 road, carried the strange news to the uttermost parts of 

 the kingdom. 



