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BNL.757.008
10 Feb 1757:22 (2849)
London. Nov. 20. We hear from a town in the West-Riding of
Yorkshire, that great quantities of corn having been bought
upon the market-day morning, by the badgers, the Mayor gave
strict orders that no corn should be sold before the market
bell was rung (a caution which had been many years
neglected) whereby all sorts of grain were sold considerable
cheaper than many weeks before. A gentleman in the
neighbourhood of the same place sent two waggon loads of
corn with orders for the bellman to cry it at four shillings
lower than the market price, to be sold to the poor only,
and no one person to exceed a strike.
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