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BNL.728.030
28 Nov-5 Dec 1728:11 (101)
From the St. James's Evening Post, Aug. 13. 1728. Dublin,
Aug. 6. The apprentices are of this city, having made it a
practice of late to rendezvous in great numbers, and go in a
riotous manner to take up such of their trades as came from
the country to town to get work, and to colt them, which is
to make them ride on a long pole carried on mens shoulders
through the city, with musick going before them, and great
clubs in all their hands, so that they were abusive to all
that opposed them; the magistrates went yesterday to
suppress several hundreds of the taylors, who were colting
those of their own body, but they could not master them with
all their posse, without the assistance of 100 men with
proper officers of the army in barracks here, by which means
they were dispersed and 16 of 'em taken prisoners, who are
now lodg'd in the Black Dog Prison. A peruke-maker's
servant died t'other day by such colting, so that 'twas time
to check so barbarous a practice.
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