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“...it having been obviated since the con-
struction of the railway. Lady Nugent makes several
references to it in her Joumal. * She visited it on various
occasions in 1803, and wrote :
I was much entertained ; for the Inn is situated on the road
between Kingston and Spanish Town, and it was very diverting
to see the odd figures and extraordinary equipages constantly
passing—kittareens, sulkies, mules, and donkies. Then a host
of gentlemen, who were taking their sangaree in the Piazza;
and their vulgar buckism amused me very much. Some of
them got half tipsy, and then began petitioning me for my
interest with his Honour—to redress the grievance of one, to
give a place to another, and so forth ; in short it was a picture
of Hogarth. . . .
Spanish Town was once a town of considerable import-
ance, and the well-constructed group of Government
Buildings round its central Square testifies to its former
grandeur. Among the more notable of these was the
old King’s House, the former official residence...”
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