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each accompanied with appropriate tunes. After which, the stewards, escorted by the band, colours, drums, and fifes, conducted the company to the field appointed for rustic sports. The whole crowd seemed impressed with sensations which will long be cherished and remembered. The total expense amounted to £296. 19s. 8d.

1827 An act of parliament received the royal assent, for erecting and endowing a chapel of ease in the parish of Wisbech St. Peter's.

Another act received the like assent, for improving the outfall of the river Nene, and the drainage of the lands discharging their waters into the Wisbech river, and the navigation of the said Wisbech river, from the upper end of Kinderley's cut to the sea.

We close the account of these occurrences with a list of the aldermen of the guild, and of the town-bailiffs of Wisbech.

The Names of such of the ALDERMEN of the Guild of the Holy Trinity in Wisbech, from its Foundation, 2d Richard II., 1379, to its Dissolution, 29th Henry VIII., 1540; and of such of the TowN-BAILIFFS as are noticed in the Records, from the Incorporation of the Town, in the third Year of the Reign of King Edward VI.