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The GREAT SALTERNS, now in possession of Messrs. Sharp and Glendening, a very ancient establishment, of which mention is made in the ‘Domesday Book’. The Duties arising to Government from it exceed in amount all other Excise Duties paid in the Island.
— Slight, Henry (1820) A Metrical History of Portsmouth. Hollingsworth & Price, Portsmouth source
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