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‘The Swindler Detected: Or Cautions to the Public: Containing a Minute Account of the Various Frauds and Impositions Practised on the Honest and Industrious Tradesmen of this Metropolis … : Addressed to a Certain Alderman.’ Anonymous paper published in 1781, directed at shaming the vices of Alderman Wooldridge.