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Rails Surname Ancestry Results

Our indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'rails'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 1 record (displaying 1 to 1): 

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Gaoled Newspaper Vendors in Stafford County Prison (1821-1835)
The 1815 Stamp Act increased the tax on newspapers to fourpence a copy. Many radical newspaper publishers and the booksellers and newsagents who sold their popular papers ignored the law, and were liable to suffer prosecution either by authority of the Stamp Office which regulated the tax or by a common informer. In 1836 the House of Commons ordered these returns to be made from each prison, giving details of the convictions that had been made under the Act. The returns are not entirely consistent from one gaol to another, but most give names, dates, and period of imprisonment.

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Gaoled Newspaper Vendors in Stafford County Prison
 (1821-1835)

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