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LETTER III.


SOME

OBSERVATIONS

UPON A PAPER, CALLED,

THE REPORT OF THE COMMIITEE

OF

THE MOST HONOURABLE THE PRIVY-COUNCIL IN ENGLAND,

RELATING TO WOOD'S HALFPENCE.

TO

THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.





HAVING already written two letters to the people of my own level and condition, and having now very pressing occasion for writing a third: I thought I could not more properly address it than to your lordships and worships.

The occasion is this: a printed paper was sent to me on the 18th instant, entitled, A Report of the Committee of the Lords of his Majesty's most honourable Privy-Council in England, relating to Mr. Wood's halfpence and farthings. There is

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