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A


LETTER


TO THE


SHOPKEEPERS, TRADESMEN, FARMERS, AND COMMON PEOPLE


OF


IRELAND,


CONCERNING


THE BRASS HALFPENCE


COINED BY ONE


WILLIAM WOOD, HARDWAREMAN,


WITH A DESIGN TO HAVE THEM PASS IN THIS KINGDOM.


WHEREIN IS SHOWN


The Power of his Patent, the Value of his Halfpence, and how far every Person may be obliged to take the same in Payments, and how to behave himself, in case such an Attempt should be made by Wood, or any other Person.


(Very proper to he kept in every Family.)


BY M. B. DRAPIER.


WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1724.