A letter from a Member of Parliament for a borough in the West, to a noble Lord in his neighbourhood there, concerning the Excise-Bill, and the manner and causes of losing it / [M. M].

  • M. M.
Date:
1733
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Credit: A letter from a Member of Parliament for a borough in the West, to a noble Lord in his neighbourhood there, concerning the Excise-Bill, and the manner and causes of losing it / [M. M]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 1° ] inform, and miflead, and enrage one another. It was the Theme of Coffee- Houles, Taverns, and Gin-lhops, the Diicourle of Artificers, the Cry of the Streets, the Entertainment of Lacquies, the Prate of Wenches, and the Bugbear of Children. Of all thefe, fcarce one underftood a word of the Matter, nor would under- ftand: It was common to hear Men, other wile very reafonable Men , declare that they would read nothing on t’other Side. What wonder then if the Vulgar and the Many were totally bewitched ? If you were to reprefent the thing truly to one of thefe angry People, ( and angry moll of them were) he would not credit you; nay, probably affront you. Some of them carried this obffinate Perfeverance in a Miftake fo far, as to fwear, that they would not believe that the Bill had one retraining Claufe in it, though they law it there. No: We were all to be de¬ livered, Men, Women and Children, bound Hand and Foot, to Bands of Ex- cifemen. * i Even the Number of thefe terrible Ex- cifemen was not to exceed one hundred and fifty, not three to a County; yet were to