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1731 - 17401731 Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull Invention of sextant by John Hadley 1732 Earliest Cavalry and Infantry Muster Rolls 1733 Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and
wine – Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed –
some continued in Latin for a few years 1734 Kent's Directory 1738 Earliest Calvinistic Methodist registers John Wesley has his conversion experience 1739 April 7: Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival |
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