An earnest dissuasive from intemperance in meats and drinks.... / By ... Edmund Gibson.

  • Edmund Gibson
Date:
1766
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An earnest dissuasive from intemperance in meats and drinks.... / By ... Edmund Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | [43] «© To this pernicious Practice 1s chiefly owing. That our lower Kind of People are exfecbled and dif Power to labour for an honeft Live- VII. « Wr theGrand Jury for the County of Middlefex, taking Notice of the vaft Number of Brandy and Geneva Shops, @e. for the Retailing of Gin, and other Spirituous Liquors; which being fold at a very low Rate, the meaner, though ufeful Part of the Nation, as Day-labourers, Men and Women Servants, and common Sol- diers, nay, even Children, are enticed prove of thofe pernicious Liquors fold for fuch fmall Sums of Money, whereby they are daily intoxicated | “<¢ and