Note 65 — May 29.] RESTORATION OR ROYAL OAK DAY.
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Until about the year 1830, on the annual payment of their rent to the agent of the Duke of Buccleuch, an entertainment was given by the magistrates, under the title of “the Hen Feast.” It derived this title from the consideration that “the kain fowls” due by the lessees of the burgh mills were served up on this occasion.—Ibid., p. 269.