[L.] The common people; the ordinary ruck.

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a. 1687.  Petty, Pol. Arith., Pref. (1690), a b. The Fire at London, and Disaster at Chatham, have begotten Opinions in the Vulgus of the World to our Prejudice.

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a. 1734.  North, Examen, II. v. § 128 (1740), 394. As for the Vulgus of the Faction, we know very well what their Employ was.

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