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GG(J.766.003
21 May 1766:22 (139)
London. . . Feb 24. . . Saturday last there was an universal
joy to be seen in the countenances of every lover of trade
in the city, on the hopes of the Stamp act being repealed,
that the merchant as well as the mechanick may once more
hope to be able to play their just debts, and the many
factors be enabled to employ the poor, who have been too
considerable a time destitute of the common necessaries of
life. The bells in most churches rang from morning till
night; and the following houses were illuminated, viz. Mr.
House's, shoe maker, in Cheapside, where there were exactly
forty-five lights; . . .
Leeds, Feb. 25. The news relating to the American Stamp-
act, which arrived here early yesterday morning, was so
agreeable to the merchants in this town, that the bells were
immediately set a ringing, and continued to do so all day, .
. . [bells rung also in Birmingham and Bristol.]
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