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To the King's Most Excellent Majesty [Welsh broadside, supporting King]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07182 Author/Creator: Place Written: London, England Type: Broadside Date: 1775 ca. Pagination: 1 sheet Height: 38 cm, Width: 22.9 cm Order a Copy

"The Humble Address of the High Sheriff... of the County of Carmarthen." Printed in Water-Street between the Coffee-House and the Old Ship. (No printer listed; Sheriff not named.) Urging subjects loyal to the crown "to take this opportunity of expressing our most hearty abhorrence... of these undutiful and traitorous practices of your majesty's subjects in America"

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