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BEP(F.767.040
20 Jul 1767:31 (1661)
London, May 12 Advices of great importance are arrived from
North-America. They are said to be very disagreeable in
their tendency. The colonists plead their poverty. . . .At
Philadelphia a play-house is built, and as much frequented
by the Quakers, as by those who have fewer external marks of
religion. Cock-fighting, fox-hunting, horse-racing, and
every other expensive diversion, are in great vogue in the
colonies, yet the colonists pretend they are not able to pay
towards the support of their government.
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