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" And for the second Plate to enter at the same Time and Place, 

 paying if a Subscriber One Guinea Entrance, if a Non-Subscriber 

 Three Guineas, or at the Post Two Guineas if a Subscriber ; if a 

 Non- Subscriber Five Guineas, to go to the second best tho' distanc'd. 



" All Horses to be kept from the Time of Entering to the Time of 

 Running, at some Publick House within three Miles of the said 

 Course ; and all Horses, &c., to be plated by some Smith that lives 

 within that Distance. 



" All Disputes for this Plate, relating either to Entering or Run- 

 ning, to be determin'd by the Majority of Subscribers their present. 



" There will be Ordinaries each Day, at Sunninghill Wells at One 

 o'clock." 



•' Windsor, Sept. 17, 1744. 

 " rr^HESE are to certify the Gentlemen and Ladies, that there 

 -L will be an Assembly at the Town-Hall there Tomorrow, the 

 18th instant, being the Day of the Horse- Race on Ascot-Heath, 

 near Windsor." 



"AT the Town-Hall, Windsor, this Day the ITth Instant, will be 

 -^--^ perform'd 



SOLOMON. 



A Serenata, taken from the Canticles. 



Set to Musick by Mr. Boyce. 



Tickets to be had at the Maidenhead, the Ball and Castle, and 



the White Hart."* 



* This aristocratic gatliering contrasts favourably with the entertainments of 

 the upper ten in Belgravia on the same day, to wit : " At May-Fair Dnckuig 

 Pond. This Day, precisely at Two o'Clock, three Dogs will hunt Six Ducks, 

 for Three Guineas. And on Monday the 1st of October next, will be Goose 

 Hunting ; and the famous Flying Dean will hunt six Ducks, for Two Guineas, 

 against the noted Nero, at the above Place, precisely at Two o'Clock." 



