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| | from report of the Children's Employment Commission: Sedgley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | The hours of work are nearly the same among all the nailers throughout all the villages of the parish of Sedgley, being from 6 in the morning till 9 or 10 at night, and deducting two hours for meals. |
 | | Sedgley might appropriately be termed the district of female flsmiths. |
 | | The worthy vicar of Sedgley informed me, that one of these dramas, or plays, of the Primitive Methodists, consisted of three children dressed in a sort of loose garment: a boy representing Justice, with a sword; a girl, all in white, Mercy; and a little boy kneeling between them, upon a platform, as the Victim. |
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