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No 190

Dr Williamson having declared that there was a prize left by Burton Esq. for any deserving Town Boy, gave as the examination for those who chose to compete for it, the whole of the Iliad and the Aneid, Horace’s Odes and the Hecuba. This prize has not been given by Dr Williamson before vide No…

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No 179

Williamson having proposed as a subject for an English Prize poem a translation of the chorus in the Hecuba several fellows tried for it and the best exercise being declared by Williamson to be that shown up by a Townboy, it was of course expected that he would have the prize, but in the interval…