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were indicted for
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stealing a printed book intitled, The Modern Gazetteer, or A short View of the several Nations of the World, &c. value two shillings and six pence
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I am a
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: I lost The Modern Gazetteer out of my window on the first of July, it was produced before the justice; I have had it ever since; it is my book (producing it).
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I took the prisoners before the justice on another charge, and Price confessed selling this book to Burn.
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I bought this book of the prisoners; Oxlade came and challenged it; then Price said he stole it in
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BOTH
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Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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