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 | | At Ringmer, for instance, the labourers met after church on the Sunday and next morning assembled on the green around Viscount Gage, forming a ring into which someone — his identity carefully concealed by the formation — threw a letter. |
 | | Whether or not this included Richard Lower in Chiddingly is not known, nor whether Finch was, in fact, dismissed. |
 | | Lord Gage, however, was sufficiently impressed by the letter, the conditions it revealed and the demeanour of those who presented it, to promise that the demands it made would be met, and he brought pressure on local farmers and millers to see that they were. |
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