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[[Image:GrubStreet-London 300dpi.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=People congregate at the entrance to a narrow street, overlooked by two four-storey buildings.  Each floor of the right-most building projects further over the street than the floor below.  At the corner of each building, shops advertise their wares.  A cart is visible down the street, and one man appears to be carrying a large leg of meat.|19th-century ''Grub Street'' (latterly Milton Street), as pictured in ''(contracted; show full)bservator|Observator]]'' (1702&ndash;1712), and the [[Tory]] ''Rehearsal'' (1704&ndash;1709), both superseded by [[Daniel Defoe]]'s ''Weeky Review'' (1704&ndash;1713), and Jonathan Swift's ''Examiner'' (1710&ndash;1714).<ref>{{Harvnb|Clarke|2004|pp=45&ndash;46}}</ref>  English newspapers were often politically sponsored, and Grub Street was host to several such publications; between 1731 and 1741
 [[Prime Minister]] [[Robert Walpole]]'s ministry was reported to have spent about £50,077 (about £{{Formatprice|{{Inflation|UK|50077|1741}}|0}} today){{Inflation-fn|UK}} nationally of [[HM Treasury|Treasury]] funds on bribes to such newspapers.  Allegiances changed often, with some authors changing their political stance on receipt of bribes from secret service funds.<ref name="Clarkepp5860">{{Harvnb|Clarke|2004|pp=58&ndash;60}}</ref>  Such changes helped maintain the level of disdain with whic(contracted; show full)
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