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The Consolidator - or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Daniel Defoe
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and the Feathers foul Dealings to the Queen of the Country, and so
her Majesty sent them Home.

But if they were asham'd of being call'd Tackers before, they were
doubly mortify'd at this now, nay the Country resented it so
exceedingly, that some of them began to consider whether they should
venture to go Home or no; Printed Lists of their Names were
Publish'd, tho' we do not say they were true Lists, for it was a hard
thing to know which were true Lists, and which were not, nor indeed
could a true List be made, no Man being able to retain the exact
Account of who were the Men in his Memory.

For as there were 134 Tackers, so there were 141 of these, who by a
Name of Distinction, were call'd Lebusyraneim, in English
Ailesbury-men.

The People were so exasperated against these, that they express'd
their Resentment upon all Occasions, and least the Queen should think
that the Nation approv'd the Proceedings, they drew up a
Representation or Complaint, full of most dutiful Expressions to
their Queen, and full of Resentment against the Feathers, the Copy of
which being handed about the Moon the last time I was there, I shall
take the Pains to put it into English in the best manner I can,
keeping as near the Originial as possible.

If any Man shall now wickedly suggest, that this Relation has any
retrospect to the Affairs of England, the Author declares them
malitious Misconstruers of his honest Relation of Matters from this
remote Country, and offers his positive Oath for their Satisfaction,
that the very last Journy he made into those Lunar Regions, this
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