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Fitting the Crime Text   Here are some extracts from the calendar of prisoners tried at the 1840 Staffordshire spring assizes. A range of sentences were handed down.
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William Salt Library: Calendar of Prisoners at Staffordshire Assizes, Spring 1840

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