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A Pugnacious Poacher Text  This is a sworn statement given in 1814 before a Justice of the Peace by George Booth, constable of Audley, describing his attempt to confiscate a lurcher dog being kept by a farmer called Daniel Colclough for the unauthorised killing of game.
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