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| Title | Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]... Volume 6 of Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858], Great Britain. State Trials Committee |
| Author | Great Britain. State Trials Committee |
| Editors | Sir John Macdonell, Sir John Edward Power Wallis |
| Publisher | H. M. Stationery Office, 1894 |
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