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An Account of the tryals had and tried before the right honourable the judges of assize for the provinces of Linster and Connought, March and April, 1732.
Date: 1732
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A collection of the proceedings in the House of Commons against the Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, lord chancellor of England, for corruption and bribery: With the several debates and speeches in the house thereupon, by Sir Edward Coke, Mr. Recorder Finch, Sir Robert Philips, &c. Together with the judgement given by the lords against the said lord chancellor, A.D. 1620.
England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: [1721]
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The reports of several special cases adjudged in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster, in the reign of King Charles II. By Sir Thomas Jones knt. late chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas. With two tables; the one of the names of the cases, and the other of the principal matters contained therein.
Jones, Thomas, Sir, 1614-1692.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]
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Silence Folkes, executrix of Thomas Folkes, Esq; her late husband, deceased, - - appellant. Maurice Lewis, Esq; executor of Grace Griffith, his late mother, deceased, - respondent. The respondent's case.
Lewis, Maurice, 1689 or 1690-Date: 1731]
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The proceedings at the sessions of peace, oyer and terminer, for the city of London, and county of Middlesex, on Wednesday the 7th, Thursday the 8th, Friday the 9th, Saturday the 10th, and Monday the 12th of December, In the 11th Year of His Majesty's Reign. Being the First sessions in the Mayoralty of the Right Honourable Sir John Barnard, Knight, Lord-Mayor of the City of London. For the Year 1737. Number I.
Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]-38
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Select trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for murder, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences. To which are added, genuine accounts of the lives, behaviour, confessions and dying speeches of the most eminent convicts. In Four Volumes. From the year 1720, to this time. ... . From December 1720, to October 1723. Amongst a great many other remarkable Trials are, For Murder. James Hall, Sarah Malcomb, T. Billings, T. Wood, and Catherine Hayes, Capt. John Jayne, Richard Savage, James Clough, Lewis Houssart, Major J. Oneby, Burnworth, Blewit, and their Gang, T. Athoe, and his Son, &c. &c. &c. For the Highway. W. Gorden, W. Wreathock, and his Gang, T. Carr, and E. Adams, Mary Young alias Jenny Diver, James Dalton, &c. &c. &c. For Forgery. Richard Brabant, Parson Kinnersley, and W. Hales, &c. &c. &c. For Rapes and Attempts to Ravish. Arthur Gray, Samuel Street, Col. Charteris, William West, &c. &c. &c. For receiving stolen Goods. J. Barthelmi, Jonathan Wild, &c. &c. &c. For Burglary. John Sheppard, Edgworth Bess, &c. &c. &c. For Sodomy and Sodomitical Practices. Margaret Clap, Charles Hitchin, &c. &c. &c.
Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]
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The genuine proceedings at the Assizes on the Home Circuit, held in March, 1739. Before the Honourable Sir Lawrence Carter, Knt. one of the barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, and the Honourable Sir John Fortescue Aland, Knt. one of the justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Hertford, for the county of Hertford; Chelmsford, for the county of Essex; Rochester, for the county of Kent; East Grinstead, for the county of Sussex; and Kingston upon Thames for the county of Surrey. Containing, the trials of twenty-nine persons who were capitally convicted at the aforesaid Assizes, and receiv'd sentence of death. With the whole proceedings at the Crown Bar in each of the said counties.
Great Britain. Assizes. Home Circuit.Date: [1739]
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The proceedings on the King's commissions of the peace, oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery for the city of London; And also the Gaol Delivery for the County of Middlesex, held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, On Wednesday the 2d, Thursday the 3d, Friday the 4th, and Saturday the 5th of July. In the Twenty-Ninth Year of His Majesty's Reign. Number VI. for the Year 1755. Being the Sixth sessions in the Mayoralty of the right honourable Stephen Theodore Janssen, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London.
Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)Date: [1755]
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Shem Bridges, Esq; appellant. John Hitchcock, Thomas Wethered, respondents. The respondent Wethered's case.
Wethered, Thomas.Date: 1715]
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The trials of James Brownrigg, and John Brownrigg, his son, for confining and inhumanly scourging Mary Mitchel, spinster; at the general Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held at Guildhall, on Monday, October 19, 1767. In the Seventh Year of His Majesty's Reign; before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Kite, Kt. Lord-Mayor, James Eyre, Esq; Recorder, And others His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of London. Published by Authority of the Court.
Brownrigg, James.Date: [1767]
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The bloody register. A select and judicious collection of the most remarkable trials, for murder, treason, rape, sodomy, highway roberry, pyracy, House-Breaking, Perjury, Forgery, and other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. From the year 1700, to the year 1764 inclusive. ...
Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]
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This day was published, number 1. A new edition, (being the fourth) of A complete collection of state-trials, And Proceedings For High Treason, And Other Crimes And Misdemeanours: Commencing With The Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Richard II. And Ending With The Sixteenth Year of the Reign of King George III. To which is prefixed, a new preface, by Francis Hargrave, Esq. London, printed by T. Wright: for J. and F. Rivington, L. Davis, T. Longman, W. Owen, T. Cadell, M. Folingsby, T. Lowndes, B. Law, J. Wilkie, R. Horsfield, M. Hingeston, S. Bladon, T. Carnan, and the rest of the Proprietors: and sold by G. Kearsly; also by all the booksellers in town and country. Conditions. I. This Work will be printed in a handsome Manner on a Demy Paper; and will be comprised in Two Hundred and Ten Numbers, making Six Volumes in Folio. If it should exceed that Quantity, the Overplus will be given Gratis. II. Each Number containing Six Sheets, Price One Shilling, will be published Weekly. III. As it is proposed to print a List of the Subscribers in the last Number, it is requested that those who intend to become Purchasers, will send their Names and Address to Mr. Kearsly, in Fleet-Street, London; Mr. Fletcher, at Oxford; Mess. Fletcher and Hodson, at Cambridge; Mr. Cadell, in Bristol; Mrs. Lynch, in Dublin; or their respective Booksellers. *** Great Part of the Work being already printed, the Purchasers may depend upon the Regularity of its Publication. When the Whole is finished, the Price will be considerably raised to Non-Subscribers.
Date: 1775]
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The counsellor's magazine; or, a complete law library for barristers, conveyancers, attornies, solicitors, clerks, students, and others who would wish to acquire a competent knowledge of the law; A Science of too interesting a Nature to be neglected by any One who has Property or Character to protect. By a society of gentlemen, of the Middle Temple.
Society of Gentlemen of the Middle Temple.Date: 1796
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Shem Bridges, Esq; appellant. John Hitchcock, and Thomas Wethered, respondents. The appellant's case.
Bridges, Shem.Date: 1715]
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The whole proceedings on the special commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Goal delivery, for the county of Sussex, held at Chichester, the 16th, 17th, and 18th days of January last; Before the Hon. Me. Justice Foster, Mr. Baron Clive, and Mr Justice Birch; containing the trials of William Jackson, William Carter, Benjamin Tapner, John Cobby, John Hammond, Richard Mills, Sen. and Richard Mills, jun. his son, for the murder of William Gally and Denial Chater. To which is added, an appendix, containing an authentick account of the behaviour of the several malefactors, before and at the place of execution.
Sussex (England). Sessions.Date: 1749
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Silence Folkes, widow and executrix of Thomas Folkes, Esq; deceased, - - - - - - appellant. Maurice Lewis, Esq; son and executor of Grace Griffith, deceased, who was widow and executrix of Robert Griffith, deceased, - - - - respondent. The appellant's case.
Folkes, Silence.Date: 1731]
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The trials at large of the capital and other convicts, onthe King's commission of the peace, oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery for the city of London; and also the gaol delivery for the county of Middlesex, Held at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey, On Wednesday, the 7th of December, 1791, and the following Days; Being the First Session in the mayoralty of the Right Honourable John Hopkins, Lord Mayor of the City of London, Taken in Short-Hand by E. Hodgson, Professor of Short-Hand; And Published by Authority. Number I. Part I.
Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)Date: [1791]-92
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The proceedings on the King's commissions of the peace, oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery for the city of London; And also the Gaol Delivery for the County of Middlesex, held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey, On Thursday the 14th, Friday the 15th, Saturday the 16th, Monday the 18th, Tuesday the 19th and Wednesday the 20th of September. In the 26th Year of His Majesty's Reign. Part II. of Number Vii. for the Year 1752. Being the Second Sessions in the Mayoralty of the Right Honourable Robert Alsop, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London.
Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)Date: [1752]
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Two actions, between John Howe, Esq. and George Lewis Dive, Esq. Tried by a Special Jury, before Lord Mansfield, at the Assizes holden at Croydon, on Thursday the 16th of August, 1781.
Chedworth, John Howe, Baron, 1754-1804.Date: M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]
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The proceedings at the sessions of peace, oyer and terminer, for the city of London, and county of Middlesex, on Wednesday the 6th, Thursday the 7th, Friday the 8th, and Saturday the 9th of December. In the 12th Year of His Majesty's Reign. Being the First sessions in the Mayoralty of the Right Honourable Micajah Perry, Esquire, Lord-Mayor of the City of London. For the Year 1738. Number I.
Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]-39
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The trial; or, The history of Charles Horton, Esq. In three volumes. By a gentleman.
Gentleman.Date: 1772
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The history of the most remarkable tryals in Great Britain and Ireland, in capital cases; Viz. Heresy, Treason, Felony, Incest, Poisoning, Adultery, Rapes, Sodomy, Witchcraft, Pyracy, Murder, Robbery, &c. Both by the unusual Methods of Ordeal, Combat, and Attainder; and by the Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Common Laws of these Realms. Faithfully extracted from Records, and other Authentick Authorities, as well Manuscript as Printed. In two volumes.
Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]
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The dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity Dublin, plaintiffs in error. The King, Defendant in Error. Upon a Writ of Error brought by the Dean and Chapter, to reverse a Judgment given by the Court of King's-Bench in England, upon a Writ of Error brought by the said Plaintiffs of a Judgment given by the Court of King's-Bench in Ireland. The Defendant's Case.
Great Britain. Attorney-General.Date: 1724]
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Roger Lynch and John Lynch, appellts. Robert Dalzel, Henry Cartwright, and John Everett, Esqs. Respts. The respondents case.
Sun-Fire-Office.Date: 1730]
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The proceedings at the sessions of peace, oyer and terminer, for the city of London, and county of Middlesex, on Wednesday the 14th, Thursday the 15th, Friday the 16th, and Saturday the 17th of July. In the 16th Year of His Majesty's Reign. Being the First Sessions in the Mayoralty of the Right Hon. George Heathcote, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London.
Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)Date: [1742]