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Cowper

CHAPTER VII
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She would have gone to the county gaol, had William Raban, the baker's son, who prosecuted, insisted upon it; but he, good-naturedly, though I think weakly, interposed in her favour, and begged her off.

The young gentleman who accompanied these fair ones is the junior son of Molly Boswell.

He had stolen some iron-work, the property of Griggs the butcher.

Being convicted, he was ordered to be whipped, which operation he underwent at the cart's tail, from the stone-house to the high arch, and back again.

He seemed to show great fortitude, but it was all an imposition upon the public.


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