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NYM(G.758.024
10 Apr 1758:13 (295)
England. Richmond, in Yorkshire, Decem. 4. Yesterday being
the market-day, a number of rioters, to the amount of near
an hundred, Masons, knitters, and labouring men, from
Askrig, Bolton and Redmar, and other part of Wern[?]dale,
with some few from Swaledale, came into the town early in
the morning, rung the corn bell, and their ring-leader
proclaimed the price of corn, viz. wheat, four shillings per
bushel; massoline, three shillings and six pence; oats, one
shilling and six pence; which done, they seized the sacks
of the farmers, and insisted upon having the corn at the
price by them set, some of them paying, and other taking it
without paying any thing. Others of the rioters set the
price for oatmeal, potatoes, &c. Some of the town's people
were as industrious as the rioters themselves, in buying at
the price so set. . .
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