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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
 
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods: William de Roach: "Then the week following Mrs Rippen came down several times and asked what such stones ...John Pollard  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Alexander Jack: "...we went to another house a little further on, and there was a man sitting with a pot of beer, reading a newsp... Anon  Print: Newspaper
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
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Cammell: "I heard the prisoner was in custody a few days after -I read it in the newspaper."John Cammell  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Charles Fenn: "I went into Mrs Bow's public house, the sign of the Wheat-sheaf, Holywell-street. I put my bankers book on the tab...Charles Fenn  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Elizabeth Kinsey, describing actions of prisoner William Mortimer while in tap room of the public house: "I did not see him doing...William Mortimer  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Elizabeth Marlow: "In the morning of the 23rd I was looking into the newspaper for a particular thing I wanted to see. I saw an a...Elizabeth Marlow  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Esther Radford: [Bevan picks up parcel in Pond-street and takes it to Radford]... he gave them into my possession, and I put them...Esther Radford Gazetteer and Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Everill knew John White had been charged with stealing a trunk as it was read to him from a newspaper by a landlady named Fox 2 o...Edward Everill  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
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the Times newspaper, an account of this robbery, and tha...Francis Gifford Banner The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Francis Jobling: "I am the prosecutrix's mother. On the evening of the 28th of March, she went out; the prisoner and I were in th...Elizabeth Harriet Guy  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: George Nash: "I was never in the house before... I only staid while I drank my beer -I looked at the newspaper. I was not there a...George Nash  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: 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
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
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: Jesse Adkins: "I am the landlord of the Laurel... My servant, Moore, came to me on the 20th of February -I went and missed a cand...Michael McCrea  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: John Lench: "On Saturday the 7th of May, between twelve and one, I was reading the newspaper at the public house, the Blue Bell.....John Lench  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: John Spencer: "On the 6th of April, in consequence of what I saw in the newspaper, I went to Guildhall and saw my watch."John Spencer  Print: Newspaper


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