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Suppressed: Mrs Trollope’s Vicar of Wrexhill, on the ground of its appearing to be indecent and of an immoral tendency.

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4th June, 1838. Suppressed: Mrs. Trollope’s ‘Vicar of Wrexhill,’ on the ground of its appearing to be indecent and of an immoral tendency.

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