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Election Dinner at Sir Oliver Wilkie's Table
A record of Sir Oliver Wilkie's election dinner listing courses from calves feet soup to roasted rabbit and cockles with eggs, mushrooms and hops. It notes payment to Mr Cuthbert Cowledge steward for the dinner, one shilling seven pence halfpenny, with a deduction of a farthing for prompt payment, dated Bristol Rain 4 1562.
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Oliver “Wilkie
Bristol
Oliver
Sir Oliver
Cuthbert Cowledge
Oliver Wilkie
London
Alderman Macaulay
Alderman Curtis
George M. Macaulay
Hertfords
Macrit