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NM.763.032
22 Aug 1763:22 (259)
[London]. . . June 18. A gentleman who sometimes honours us
with his correspondence, being upon a journey into the west,
says that as soon as he entered upon the confines of Devon,
his ears began to ring with the clamours against the cyder
act . . . suspended to an apple tree that grew over the
road, a figure as big as life, dress'd in Scotch plaid, with
something to resemble a ribbon over one shoulder, and on a
painted board, affixed to the tree, were these lines:
Behold the man who made the yoke,
Which doth Old England's sons provoke:
But now he hangs upon a tree,
An emblem of our liberty.
. . . [4 lines, signed] Liberty, property, and no excise.
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