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cracy, fox-hunting squires and their rosy-cheeked 

 daughters, who had come in queer-looking family 

 coaches drawn by cart horses from the remotest 

 parishes of three or four counties to see their 

 Sovereign. 



" The Heath was fringed by a wild, gipsy-like 

 camp of vast extent. For the hope of being able 

 to feed on the leavings of many sumptuous tables, 

 and to pick up some of the guineas and crowns 

 which the spendthrifts of London were throwing 

 about, attracted thousands of peasants from a 

 circle of many miles." 



