One Hundred Years Ago.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 189, 24 June 1873, Page 7

One Hundred Years Ago.

The London City Press has recently published a witch of extracts from the London Chronicle of a hundred years ago; Here are a couple of them :—^ Housn of Commons, June 17, 1782.—= Tho Marquis of Graham moved for leave to bring in a bill to repeal an Act of the 10th Geo. H., which prohibited the wearing of the ancient Highland dress in the Highlands of Scotland* Mr Eraser seconded the motion, and said the dress was better calculated for the Highlands than any other, for it was a great restraint for a man who is obliged to step from hillock to hillock to have his knees fast bound 'in breeches. Sir P. J. Clarke thought if the Scotch dress was best calculated for the Highlands, it should be restricted to the Scotch, who should be restrained from wearing it in England, He remembered that then; Were six Highlanders quartered at a house in Hampshire, who put the man of the house to great inconvenience, for his wife and daughter could not keep their eyes off them, and he was obliged to take lodging elsewhere for them both.Leave was given to bring in the bill. Winchester, September 30th, 1775. Thursday se'nnight was married by license at Bishop's Waltham, Mr Richard Elcock, bricklayer, to Mrs Judith Redding, who, to exempt her future husband from the payment of any debts she might have contracted, went into one of the pews in the church and stripped herself of all her clothes except her shift, in which only she went to the altar and was married, much to the astonishment of the parson, clerk, and all beholders.