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last past and also on the second fourth sixth and
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ninth Days of January Instant he this Deponent
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went to the
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in order to enquire into the price
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of middling British Wheat And that on all the
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above mentioned Days the common Market pried
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of middling British Wheat sold in the said Market
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was forty nine Shilling and upwards the Quarter
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And further saith that for several Weeks last
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past the common Market price of middling
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British Wheat sold in the said Market hath been
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And this Deponent further saith that he is
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seized of a Freehold Estate of the clear Yearly
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above all Charges and Reprizes and that he is skilful
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in the Prices of Wheat and other Corn and that he
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And that he is not a Corn Chandler Mealman
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Factor or a Merchant concerned in the Importation
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of Corn or any Way interested in any Wheat to be
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Sworn the
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