To my brethren of the forty, who have agreed to petition Parliament for further powers, and to my fellow-citizens, payers of poor-rates.
Brother Forty-Man.
[Exeter,
1784]
A series of recommendations on the organization of the corporation for distributing poor-rates, signed: "A brother forty-man".
ESTC
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