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  <dc:title>Ticket inviting recipient to St.Dunstan's, Stepney, and to dine at the King's Head, Stepney</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Printed ticket (with manuscript number '70' written in one corner) inviting the recipient to 'meet your Countrymen, Born in the Parish of St.Dunstan's, Stepney' by attending a sermon at St.Dunstan's on Thursday 8th September 1715, and afterwards dining at the Kings Head in Stepney.

Scope and Content
Names of 8 'stewards' printed at the bottom: Hickson Wright, James Thomas, John Graves, Joseph Bradley, Samuel Walker, William Shipman, Richard Davis and John Barnard.
Small red wax seal attached, showing a figure [? in Highland dress with bagpipes] and the words 'Friendship &amp; Charity'.
Note: 8 September 1715 was only a few days after the outbreak of the "Fifteen" rebellion in Scotland, when James Francis Edward Stuart [the 'Old Pretender'] was proclaimed as King by the Jacobites at Braemar.
[This ticket seems to be connected with the Stepney Society, which organised the Stepney or Cockney Feast</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1715</dc:date>
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