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as all the reft of the dealers are fupplied by them, 

 as indeed is almoft all England; for a good Che- 

 fhire cheefe is hardly to be got even in Chefhire, as 

 I have often heard from the mafters of thofe veflels, 

 who are frequently employed to buy Chefhire 

 cheefes in London, and carry them back again to 

 gentlemen in thofe counties, who can get none that 

 is good at home. From hence it is eafy to con- 

 ceive, how much the price muft be enhanced by 

 two commiflions, two freights, and the profit of at 

 leaft one commiflioner, but very commonly of two. 



It may be faid, this refpecls a county or two only; 

 but it may as truly be faid, that a fimilar practice 

 obtains almoft through every dairy county in the 

 kingdom. Jobbers have eftablifhed themfelves 

 almoft every where, who either buy all they can 

 immediately from the dairies, or conftantly attend 

 the markets and fairs in the neighbourhood of the 

 dairies, and ingrofs large quantities, which infallibly 

 advances the price of the whole immoderately* 

 For inftance, in Wiltfhire, the jobbers, 20 miles 

 and upwards round Marlborough, conftantly at- 

 tend that market, where they buy up and contract 

 for very large quantities of cheefe for the enfuing 

 fairs; that is to fay, for Newbury, Andovcr, Wey- 

 hill, and Reading; from whence, if they are not 



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