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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10

Note 373 — EPILOGUE TO THE SAME.

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Alluding to the tokens issued by tradesmen in place of copper money, which, though not a legal tender of payment, continued to be current by the credit of the individual whose name they bore. Tom Brown mentions Alderman Buncombe's leaden halfpence.

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