Note 1 — THE GATHERER.
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The reader may often have noticed in county advertisements the two sheriffs designated as one officer. Thus, in the advertisement of the recent Middlesex election:—
SIR CHAPMAN MARSHALL, } Sheriff of Middlesex. SIR W.H. POLAND. }
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This reminds one of the admiration of the Lord Mayor in Richard III. by George the Second, so ill-timedly expressed by the King to Garrick, the stage king:—
"Fine Lord Mayor! capital Lord Mayor! where you get such Lord Mayor?"
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It is related, that in an election contest, in 1786, the tenant of one of the cottages had the integrity to reject £1,000 for his vote.
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The great plague in 1347.
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Who does not recollect the delightful narrative published some years since by Mr. Mariner, in his account of the Tonga Islands; the poem of "the Island," by Lord Byron; and countless dramatic representations of this unhappy affair. We remember an affecting version about seven years since at Sadler's Wells Theatre: and only a few weeks since a few of its incidents were embodied in a melo-dramatic piece called "Neuha's Cave, or the South Sea Mutineers," at Covent Garden Theatre.
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Riocobaldi Ferrariensis Historia Imperatorum—in Muratori, vol. ix. p. 128.
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Benvenuto da Imola. Comment on Dante book xx. c. 115.
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Merlini Coccaii Macaronica, xviii, p. 273.
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Notes to the lay of the Last Minstrel, p. 255.