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Gladstone to Cathcart, 3 February, 1846. The italics are my own. W. H. Draper to the Earl Cathcart, in Pope, Life of Sir John Macdonald, i. pp. 43-4. Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 24 February, 1847. Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, 26 April, 1847. Elgin-Grey Correspondence: Elgin to Grey, enclosing a note from Col. Taché, 27 February, 1847.
See Faigniez, op. cit., pp. 43-4. See the Monk of St Gall's account of the finery of the Frankish nobles: 'It was a holiday and they had just come from Pavia, whither the Venetians had carried all the wealth of the East from their territories beyond the sea, others, I say, strutted in robes made of pheasant-skins and silk; or of the necks, backs and tails of peacocks in their first plumage.
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