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The Monitor 1637 Combiner Sale and Satire
The excerpt discusses a combiner sale with surplus dividends of ten guineas or more for attendees, criticizing such combinations as injurious to fair traders and government sales. It weaves in Shakespearean jests, dinner plans, and a tale of a north of Trent militiaman who carries a gun amid game-keeping tensions, ending with a squire and a smith in a confrontation over poaching.
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Shakespear
Tewksbury
Yunkers
Mr. Monitor
St. Alban’s
Axton
North of Trent
England
Vulcan
John
Blackmith