Note 433 — Chapter XIV
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The following extract is worth notice:—
May the 1st, 1654, Moderate Intelligencer.
"This day was more observed by people's going a-maying than for divers years past, and indeed much sin committed by wicked meetings, with fighting, drunkenness, ribaldry, and the like. Great resort came to Hyde Park; many hundred of rich coaches, and gallants in rich attire, but most shameful powdered hair men, and painted and spotted women.