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  • A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.
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    A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.

    | Date: 29 September 1751 | Reference: 25932i
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    Water of life : a history of wine-distilling and spirits, 500 BC-AD 2000 / C. Anne Wilson.

    Wilson, C. Anne. | Date: 2006
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    A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin on unlicensed premises. Copper engraving plate, 1751.

    | Date: 1751 | Reference: 578558i
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    Every home a distillery : alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake / Sarah Hand Meacham.

    Meacham, Sarah Hand, 1972- | Date: 2013
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