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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV

Note 28 — THE LAST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.

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A hammil sconce, or light of the hamlet, is the picturesque expression in secluded parts of Lancashire for the local wise man, or village counsellor.

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