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Sutton. First a Pilgrim; next a Peasant Dancer; pink and white.

Miss Molly Peart: a Peasant Dancer; same colours as Lord George.

Miss Peart: 'Aurora' Blue and White. The Moon setting on one side of her head; the Sun rising on the other.

Miss A. Peart: a Dancer; pink and silver."

Mr. and Miss Hales went as a Dutchman and "a Dutchwoman, brown and pink," and Mrs. Ellis as "a Polish Lady; pink and silver; a white cloak and a great many diamonds."

Another classic lady to match 'Aurora' was "Miss Manners: 'Diana' her vest white satin and silver; her robe purple lute-string; a silver bow and quiver: her hair in loose curls, flowing behind, and a diamond crescent on her forehead."

I should judge that the "Eyewitness" who wrote the account was a Mr. Glover because of the minute particularity with which his own costume is set forth, thus: "Mr. Glover: a Cherokee Chief; a shirt and breeches in one, puffed and tied at the knees; a scarlet mantle, trimmed with gold, one corner across his breast; scarlet cloth stockings; brown leather shoes, worked with porcupine quills and deer's sinews; a gold belt; gold leather about his neck, and before like a stomacher, and over that a long necklace and gorget; head-dress of long black horsehair, tied in locks of coloured ribbons, a single lock hanging over his forehead; ear-rings red and blue; plumes of black and scarlet feathers on his head; a scalping knife tucked into his girdle; a tomahawk in his hand, and a pipe to smoke tea with."

Mrs. Glover went in black and yellow as a Spanish lady.

Then we have Henry the Eighth, a shepherdess, "a Witch with blue gown, red petticoat and high crowned hat," a friar in a mask, a Sardinian knight, a Puritan, a sailor, "Lord Vere Bertie a very good Falstaff," and many Spaniards, among them "Dr. Willis: a Spaniard with a prodigious good mask."

THE NORTON DISNEY BRASS

Norton Disney (= de Isigny, a place near Bayeux) was the home of a family who lived here from the thirteenth century to nearly the end of the seventeenth.

The castle was in the field near the church, just across the road to the west, but has quite disappeared, as has also the seven