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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 w^as, 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- 





A Quaint Corner in Marlbor-jugh. 



borough simply exhaled its distinguished visitor. People 

 rail against his attendants at every turn. The streets 

 sw^armed with them. The inn was alive. The name 

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

 w^hich ebbed and flowed night and day along the Bath 

 road, carried the strange news to the uttermost parts of 

 the kingdom. 



