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,—to recruit soldiers for his majesty’s service by delusion, and by inveigling them into houses of ill-fame, where, should the poor wretches so trepanned make resistance, or refuse to receive the proffered shilling of the nominal captain who attends there, they are sure to be plundered and beaten, if not killed.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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