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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Allen: "I took the prisoners that night in Kingsland-road... in the morning a printer's boy came to me with a handbill, and I the... Allen  Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Thomas Brown: "I took an axe of Jones the same evening afterwards; that was on the Tuesday evening and on Wednesday the...Thomas Brown  Print: Handbill
1700-1799"In late Nov. 1795, W[ordsworth] wrote to [Francis] Wrangham: " ... we see only here a provincial weekly paper ..."William Wordsworth  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Butt: "On the 26th of August I took in two gravy spoons... Two days after...a handbill came in; I read it over, and thought...Henry Butt  Print: Handbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: William Aldus: "I am a servant to Mr Salkeld; I produce four table-cloths, and twelve napkins, which I received from the prisoner...William Aldus  Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Rebecca Johnson: "I began to wash a few things after dinner, and soon after she came -we dine at one o'clock; we have a newspaper...Anthony Whitewood  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for murder: Samuel Davis: [in reply to question about length of time he spent in the water closet] Some few minutes -I cannot say how long, ...Samuel Davies  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: John Osrorne: "I know Wood, he came to my house on the 29th of July... I then heard he was in trouble, and in reading the...John Osrorne  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: Elizabeth Baglee: "I read in a newspaper of the robbery, a day or two after the robbery, and from the description it gave...Elizabeth Baglee  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for robbery: James John Conolly: "I am a policeman, I apprehended the prisoner Wright on Monday afternoon, about four o'clock (the afternoon...Robert Wright  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: James Robertson: "I keep a public house in Stanhope-street, Clare market -the prisoner and another came in on the 12th of Februar...  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: James Collins: "I was sitting near the bar reading the newspaper, when I turned my head, and saw the prisoner come out of the roo...James Collins  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the prisoner came and laid his hand on my shoulder as before,...Robert Price  Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the prisoner came and laid his hand on my shoulder as before,...Joseph Pead  Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: James John Streath: "On the 18th of October last this man watched me in the Strand. He was looking at a playbill... Thi...Frederick Constable  Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing: John Everhard Berckemyer: "On the 11th of October, about ten o'clock, I stopped in Newgate-street, to read a playbill;......John Everard Berckemyer  Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, playbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for assault: Charles Bradfield: "In the forenoon of Saturday, 4th of October, I went into the Bull public-house to have my breakfast -I was ...Charles Bradfield  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for coining: "Arthur Cross deposed, that he was reading the newspaper at the Black RAven in Fetter-lane about six weeks ago, wherein Mr Coop...Arthur Cross  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Feling: "I was at the Lion in the Wood reading the newspaper, there was Esq; Henson's coachman, then came the prisoner..."Abraham Feling  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Isaac Reeve: "After this I happened to read in the Newspaper of a quart silver tankard being stole in the prosecutor's house. I w...Isaac Reeve  Print: Newspaper


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