“GO TO HALIFAX!”
The origin of this sayings a hit old. The woollen manufacture in Halifax being veiy great, and prodigious quantities ot cloths, Ye., being continually on the tenters, and liable to he stolen, the town, at its first incorporation, was empowered to punish capitally any criminal convicted of stealing to the value of upwards of thirteen pence halfpenny, by a particular engine, known by the name of the Maiden (somewhat resembling the guillotine), which belli aded the offender in a moment ; so that it became a common remark throughout England, addressed to anyone who showed symptoms of unfairness in dialing, 11 You go to Halifax !” The town of Hull was at the same time noted for its strict police : whence the alliterative prayer of “ From H —ll, Hull, and Halifax, good Lord deliver us 1”
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Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 72, 14 October 1897, Page 2
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137“GO TO HALIFAX!” Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 72, 14 October 1897, Page 2
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