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(VERMONT). (MUSIC). A Lyste of Sacred Hymns and Tunes, and likewise Worldly Songs, certain of Wh[ich] were sunge in ye yere of our Lord 1673, and Wh[ich] pieces will be once more played and Sunge at a Greate Concerte, To be attended at Ye Free Library Halle in Ye Towne of Bennington, on ye Friday, ye 27th Day of ye Third Month, N.S., in ye yere of or Lord, 1874. All money wh[ich] shall be payed in for thys entertaynment is to go for Ye benefit of ye men and women who receive it. N.b. Deacon Grover has most excellent goode Cyder at hys shoppe next door to ye Tavern barne [caption and start of text]. Small 4to broadside. Old folds, wrinkled, some light soiling. [Bennington:], [Vt.]: Printed bye A.P. Childs, at hys Printing Shoppe, [1874]. $150.00

 

     Text continues with the concert program, in a jocular mode. WorldCat records four similar circulars, all beginning "A Lyste of Sacred Hymns and Tunes..." announcing concerts throughout New England (Brattleborough, Rutland, Georgetown, Mass., and Hartford) in 1874, but not this.