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alarmed and annoyed; it having also been intimated, that to encourage or countenance a tumultuous assembly at this particular period might be attended with consequences more serious than have hitherto been apprehended; desirous, therefore, of testifying her regard and obedience to those laws by which she is happily protected, she is determined, though much to her loss, not to sell Cross Buns on that day to any person whatever, but
Chelsea buns as usual.
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A fine day, but begins to grow a little warm; and that makes your little fat Presto sweat in the forehead. Pray, are not the fine buns sold here in our town; was it not
Rrrrrrrrrare Chelsea buns? I bought one to-day in my walk; it cost me a penny; it was stale, and I did not like it, as the man said,
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Mrs. Hand respectfully informs her friends and the public, that in consequence of the great concourse of people which assembled before her house at a very early hour, on the morning of Good Friday last, by which her neighbours (with whom she has always lived in friendship and repute) have been much
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On Good Friday, it was a tradition for the working classes, such as servants and apprentices, to buy a hot cross bun. The
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so lately as 1839 no less than 240,000 were sold here on Good Friday. This may appear to many to be an incredulous number; but few persons at the present time can form an adequate idea of the immense demand for
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became in such repute that we got on from two Cows to six, and at length to Twelve, and had the largest Milk-walk in the neighbourhood. Our man,
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Drawing - View of the interior of the
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at Easter. It was patronised by royalty such as Kings
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History of the Royal
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George Bryan (1869), "The
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The Old
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
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