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butter, sold at uttoxeter market, (and no doubt other neighbouring markets), was bought up by the london dealers. .. the passage .... is preceded by an observation, that the london cheese-mongers had set up a factorage for butter and cheese, at uttoxeter; and that they frequently laid out £ in those articles
below at a great distance from the sides of the pot. to prevent these little country moor-landish cheats (than whom no people whatever are esteemed more subtle), the factors keep a surveyor all the summer, here, who, is he have any ground to suspect any of the pots, tries them with an instrument of iron...
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