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This purse contained twelve or thirteen sovereigns, the only public money I received in this enterprise. I slept that night in Newcastle. Thresham Gregg who was on a lecturing excursion against the Pope in the north of England. I had been introduced to him a year or two before and supposed he knew me.
Thresham Gregg was a notorious and blatant "anti-Popery" preacher of the period whom the wits of Young Ireland frequently made the butt of their jests. Apart from his bigoted sectarian obsession, he was, however, in several respects decidedly nationalistic, and steadily preached support of home trade and manufactures to his audiences. There can be no reasonable doubt that he recognised M'Gee.
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