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lists of persons captured and of persons yet sought

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Post-riot proscription lists published through the Evening Post. Municipal vengeance alphabetised for convenience.

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…Those whom the charivari had driven into madness now in sober trepidation ran their fingers down the lists of persons captured and of persons yet sought, which were published each morning in the banns of the Evening Post. Many, fearing the knock on the door in the dead of night, abandoned home and hearth and fled unto the desolate Tophets and Hinnoms lying beyond the City Walls.

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