1758 The Club ' s first Commemorative Dinner 69 



One of the first entries in the Treasurer's Register for this 

 year (23rd January 1758) is as follows : 



" At an extra Mitre held in commemoration of the Club's having 

 met here weekly for fourteen years past : Present, Earl of Maccles- 

 field, President ; Earl of Morton, Lord Willoughby, Lord Charles 

 Cavendish, Mr. Burrow [the Treasurer and other nine members and 

 three guests]. 



Veale Soup. Soup and Bouille. 



Fresh Salmon and smelts. Cod and Smelts. 



2 dishes of Chickens. Ham. 



Boiled Turkey & oyes trs Rump of Beef, 



Lamb pye with Cocks-combs aladobe [a la daube], 



&c. 

 Haunch of Venison. 



RIDERS. 



2 dishes fruit. 2 jellys and syllabubs. 



2 Almond leach and Olives. 



2D COURSE. 



2 dishes Teale and Larks. Tansie. 



Pear pye Creamed. Lobsters. 



Hare. Marrow pudding 



2 dishes Asparagus and loaves. 



The Company were this day entertained with the above dinner by 

 Mr. Cole at 5/ per head eating, and drank to the prosperity and 

 continuance of the Society in claret." 



The visitors this year again several times included Ben- 

 jamin Franklin. In connection with the history of the Club 

 the most notable of the strangers now introduced to the 

 company was the Honourable Henry Cavendish, then a 

 youth of seven and twenty, who appeared for the first time 

 at the dinner on June I5th. The party numbered seventeen 

 members and twelve visitors. Among the members were 

 Lord Macclesfield, Lord Charles Cavendish, Dr. Pringle, 

 Dr. Birch, Dr. Gowin Knight, Dr. Watson, and Mr. Burrow, 

 while the guests included Dr. Bradley, Mr. Dyer, and Henry 

 Cavendish. It may be added that on each of the four 

 occasions when the younger Cavendish dined this year with 

 the Club his father was also present. 



