Saturday 1 June 2019

Successor to Mr Thomas Bennett. Kells 1846.





Image courtesy of The British Newspaper Archive.

The reference to "The Arms Act having been done away with" is particularly telling! This would have freed-up the guntrade in Ireland and as can be seen made the importation of arms much easier from both Birmingham & London.
 
Dave Stroud ramrodantiques.co.uk

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