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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)ssary to observe, how great license is taken in publishing false and scandalous libels, such as are a reproach to any Government.  This evil seems to be grown too strong for the laws now in force.  It is therefore recommended to you to find a remedy equal to the mischief."<ref name="Ingelhartp76">{{Harvnb|Ingelhart|1987|p=76}}</ref>  The passage of the Act was partly an attempt to silence Whig pamphleteers and dissenters, who had been critical of [[Tories_(political_faction)#1688
-–1714|the then Tory]] government.  Every copy of a news-carrying publication printed on a half-sheet of paper became liable to a duty of a [[Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin)|halfpenny]], and if printed on a full sheet, a [[Penny (British decimal coin)|penny]].  A duty of a [[Shilling (British coin)|shilling]] was placed on advertisements.  Pamphlets were charged a flate rate of two shillings per sheet for each edition, and were obliged to include the name and address of the printer.<ref name="Cla(contracted; show full)
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