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AWM.738.021
13-20 Jul 1738:31 (968)
They write from Macclesfield, that on the 18th, 19th, and
20th of this instant, they had great robbing by women,
concerning the woven buttons made by Mr. Thornely; the women
got a drum, and one of them beat it about town; there were
several hundreds of them, who broke into Mr. Thornely's
house, where they found, as is reported, [ ]ne scores of
bags, which they took and carried about the town at the end
of their poles. The capt. of the mob was one Elizabeth
Sexton; . . . [4 lines] The like was never seen in this
town before, for the women went through the streets with the
drum beating every day, and took the forms that they wove
the buttons in, and burnt them: . . .
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