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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 highway robbery: Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspaper, whether this bill, which I suspected to be stol...Henry Barnard  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: James Carty: "Mrs Rankin said the robbery was done on Friday, the 1st of February; I do not recollect her mentioning th...James Carty  Print: Newspaper
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
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: James Palace: "A night or two after I read in the Advertiser a watch, name Ingraham, describing it to be the same as I ...James Palace AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26th of December; I saw it in the shop between three an...John Brooks Sir John Fielding Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Joseph Ortega: "On the 16th of December about a quarter past six o'clock at night, I had been to a coffee house to see ...Joseph Ortega  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Q: "How came Mrs Carey to read the almanack?" Norris: "She was reading it, looking over it to see what day of the mont... Carey  Print: Broadsheet, Poster, Almanack
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Sharpling: "last Thursday was with [the prisoner] between four and five o'clock, he was very much in liquor, this was a... Sharpling  Print: Newspaper
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
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: William Masters: "some time on the 26th of December, we received a handbill from Sir John Fielding, describing this wat...William Masters Sir John Fielding Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for housebreaking/receiving stolen goods: Thomas Davies: "I think it was in the middle of November I saw it in the 'Morning Advertiser' -I n...Thomas Davies Morning AdvertiserPrint: 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 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: John William Harrison: "he (William Heath) was up in a corner of the tap room of the Castle and Falcon, which is very dar...William Heath  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: Stephen Davies: "on the 23rd of December he came again -I had the good fortune to read the newspaper that day"Stephen Davies  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for libel; witness reads to the court the offending paragraphs published in newspaper. James Chetham: "...in that newspaper is the paragraph...James Chetham  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for misdemeanour: Robert Coles: "I live at Southampton, and have been a cabinet maker. I saw in the newspaper an advertisement respecting ad...Robert Coles  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for murder: Henry Bracken: "I caused hom to be apprehended. I read the description of him in the newspaper and caused him to be taken up"Henry Bracken  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for murder: Joshua Parish: "I know the middle man (Payne); it is near three weeks ago since I first saw him... after this I saw in a newspap...Joshua Parish  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


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