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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: table raised by an ascent, the Duke of York on his right hand,
and the Duke of Gloucester on his left. They were served with
three several courses, at each of which the tablecloth was
shifted, and at every dish which his majesty or the dukes tasted,
the napkins were moreover changed. At another table in the same
room sat his Excellency the Lord General, the Duke of Buckingham,
the Marquis of Ormond, the Earl of Oxford, Earl of Norwich, Earl
of St. Albans, Lords De la Ware, Sands, Berkeley, and several
other of the nobility, with knights and gentlemen of great
quality. Sir John Robinson, alderman of London, proposed his
majesty's health, which was pledged standing by all present. His
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