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Trials (Perjury) - Great Britain

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    Elizabeth Canning, drawn from the life , as she stood at the bar to receive her sentence, in the Session's-House, in the Old-Bailey.

    Elizabeth Canning | Date: [1754?]
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    A summary, of the charges case and evidence, on an indictment, preferred at the last assizes at Stafford, against John Sparrow , an attorney, for perjury; intended as a justification of that proceeding.

    Sparrow, John | Date: [1783?]
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    The trial of Christopher Atkinson, Esq; Member of Parliament for Heydon in Yorkshire, and Late Cornfactor to his Majesty's Victualling-Board, for Perjury. Tried in the Court of King's Bench, Before the Right Honourable William Earl of Mansfield, and a Special Jury, on the nineteenth day of July, 1783. Taken in short hand, by W. Williamson

    Savile, Christopher, ca. 1738-1819. | Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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    Elizabeth Canning's case discussed and explained with some queries proposed to an eminent counsellor at law, on account of her trial for perjury in the affair between her and Mary Squires, a gypsy; and the counsellor's answers, &c.

    | Date: 1754?]

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