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Sun March 14 1798
   

At a LEAD MINE Pay made by PETER DENYS, Esq. on the 6th of March inst. in SWALEDALE, in the NORTH RIDING of YORKSHIRE, a NUMEROUS BODY of MINERS entered into the following RESOLUTIONS : WE, the SWALEDALE MINERS, anxious to testify our Abhorrence of French Principles, and a French Invasion, and to give an earnest of our Loyalty and Attachment to our King and Country, have unanimously resolved, each to subscribe Half-a-Crown out of our Wages, as a Voluntary Aid in Support of the War ; and in case of actual Invasion, to come forward with our PERSONAL SERVICES to repel the Enemy.

Resolved also, That a Subscription Book be opened, and left at the A. D. Inn, Fremington, for the Subscriptions of such Miners and Labouring Classes of People in the Neighbourhood, as are desirous to give proof of their Loyalty ; and that the Names of the numerous Miners, and others so subscribing, shall be printed from time to time, and placed on the Church Door at Grinton, as a terror to all Republican Levellers.

   
Sun March 14 1798
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