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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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the goods of
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It appeared to be an ill natured prosecution; there had been a difference between the Prisoner and the wife of the Prosecutor; and the prosecutor had then on a new coat, which cloth the Prisoner had as a gift from one of the livery companies.
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A clerk to a gentleman in the commission of the peace said, the Prosecutor's wife deserved to be in the place of the Prisoner.
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