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Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3

Note 522 — Chapter VI

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He had previously published letters patent, setting a duty of six shillings and eight-pence a pound, in addition to two-pence already payable, on tobacco; intended no doubt to operate as a prohibition of a drug he so much hated. Rymer, xvi. 602.

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