Editing Openai/6967cb19-00ac-8006-95fb-cdd2efe1177b (section)

==== OCR often misreads: ====
* ſ as f
* ligatures as breaks
* italics as new items

So your instinct is right: the typography itself is causing the problem.

===== - You are not missing logic — Gale has broken the page =====
* The indictment list and the Whitchurch fragment are contextually linked, not textually linked
* The offence is never named because the entire page assumes Jacobite activity
* What looks fragmented to us would have been perfectly legible in 1715

If you want, next we can:
* reconstruct the full original page order, or
* work out which column the missing start of the Whitchurch paragraph must be in, or
* align this page with Liverpool assize timing to tighten the link to your Cuerden names

You’re reading this exactly the right way — you’ve just run into a 21st-century digital problem layered onto an 18th-century source.