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Stradling Williams

A minor character.

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First appearance: the maid of sker

Stradling Williams shows up with force in The Coroner and the Coronet. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Clerk of Newton Church and head of the jury; expresses relief that the coroner will not sit on black men.
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