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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: Mary Flint: "...in consequence of a handbill that I received I had the prisoners taken into custody..."Mary Flint  Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for burglary/ receiving stolen goods: Henry Ewer: "I am a shopman to Mr Dobree, Oxford-street... I found the watch answered to the descripti...Henry Ewer  Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for burglary: James Gideon: "On the 29th of October, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, the prisoner Chord came and offered a sm...James Gideon  Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for receiving stolen goods: Robert Daniel Liddell: "I am in Mr Marshall's employ. On the 10th of March he left me to bring these boxes home ...Robert Daniel Liddell  Print: Handbill, playbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel: William Smith: "I saw [the prisoner] serving in the shop and bought this book of him... I ...William Smith Temple of ReasonPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel: Prisoner questions witness Raven Q: Pray, did you read no.17 of 'The Republican' before y...Henry Baldwin Raven The RepublicanPrint: Pamphlet
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
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
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
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: William Olley: "On Thursday the 7th of May, about ten in the morning, I was sitting at the top of the shop reading a newspaper, o...William Olley  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: Thomas Watts: "...there was a gentleman in the house reading a newspaper and I shewed it [the case] to him..." Anon  Print: Newspaper


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