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A narrative of facts, relating to a prosecution for high treason including the address to the jury, which the court refused to hear; with letters to the Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice Eyre, Mr. Serjeant Adair, the Honourable Thomas Erskine, and Vicary Gibbs, Esq. and the defence the author had prepared, if he had been brought to trial. The second edition. By Thomas Holcroft.
Thomas HolcroftDate: MDCCXCV. [1795]
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The natural and constitutional right of Britons to annual parliaments, universal suffrage and the freedom of popular association : being a vindication of the motives and political conduct of John Thelwall and of the London Corresponding Society in general : intended to have been delivered at the bar of the Old Bailey in confutation of the late charges of high treason ...
John ThelwallDate: 1795
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State trials for high treason . Containing the trial of Thomas Hardy. To which is prefixed Lord Chief Justice Eyre's charge to the grand jury. With I. Names of the Grand Jury. II. Proceedings on finding the Bills of Indictment. III. Particulars of Mr. Holcroft's Surrender and Commitment, with attendant Observations. IV. Copy of the Bill of Indictment. V. List of the Petty Jury. VI. Counsel for the Crown. Vii. Counsel for the Prisoners; With every other important Occurrence respecting this most interesting Subject of Public concern and curiosity. Taken in short-hand by a student in the Temple.
Thomas HardyDate: 1794
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The speech of the Right Honourable Philip Lord Hardwicke, Lord High-Chancellor of Great Britain made by him, as Lord High-Steward of Great Britain, upon giving judgment against William Earl of Kilmarnock, George Earl of Cromertie, and Arthur Lord Balmerino; In Westminster-Hall, on Frida the first day of August, 1746. Published by Order of the House of Peers.
Great Britain. Lord High Steward (1747 : Hardwicke)Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]
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A genuine account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words , of Francis Townly, (nominal) Colonel of the Manchester Regiment, Thomas Deacon, James Dawson, John Barwick, George Fletcher, and Andrew Blood, Captains in the Manchester Regiment; Thomas Chadwick, Lieutenant, Thomas Sydall, Adjutant in the same; and Counsellor David Morgan, a Voluntier in the Pretender's Army. Who were Executed the 30th Day of July, 1746, at Kennington Common, for high treason, In levying War against his most Sacred Majesty King George the Second.
Date: [1746]
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The trial of George Gordon , Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon, for high treason, at the bar of the Court of King's Bench, on Monday, February 5th, 1781. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney.
Lord George GordonDate: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
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The genuine trial of Francis Townley , Late of Manchester, Gentleman; who was Appointed Colonel of the Manchester Regiment by the young Pretender, and Commandant of the City of Carlisle: and was Convicted of High Treason, at the Town-Hall on St. Margaret's-Hill, Southwark, on Tuesday July 15th, 1746, for levying War against his Majesty King George the Second, and adhering to his Majesty's Enemies; before The Lords the King's Justices, and others the Commissioners named in the Special Commission for trying the English Rebels. To which is added, The trials of George Fletcher, Thomas Chadwick, and William Battragh, Officers in the aforesaid Townley's Regiment: Convicted on Wednesday July 16, 1746.
Towneley, Francis, 1709-1746Date: [1746]
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A collection of state-trials, and proceedings, upon high-treason , and other crimes and misdemeanours, from the reign of King Edward VI. to the present time. The Seventh Volume. With tables to the Vii. and Viii. supplemental volumes.
Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]
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The trial of David Tyrie, for high treason, at the assize at Winchester, held by adjournment on Saturday, August the 10th, 1782, Before The Honourable John Heath, Esquire, One of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas. Taken in Short-Hand By Joseph Gurney
Tyrie, David, -1782Date: [1782]
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The trial of Lord George Gordon , for high treason, at the bar of the court of King's bench, on Monday, February 5th, 1781. Published under the Inspection of his Lordship's Friends. To which are subjoined, several original papers relating to the subject.
Lord George GordonDate: [1781]
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The trial of James Hill , alias, John the painter, for wilfully and maliciously setting fire to the Rope-House, in the King's Yard at Portsmouth; tried at Winchester, March 6th, 1777. Before the Hon. Sir William Henry Ashurst, knt. and Sir Beaumont Hotham. Taken in short-hand by a gentleman at the trial.
John the PainterDate: [1777]
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King Charles's case or, an appeal to all rational men, concerning his tryal at the High Court of Justice. Being for the most Part that which was intended to have been deliver'd at the Bar, if the King had Pleaded to the Charge, and put himself upon a fair Tryal. With an additional Opinion concerning the Death of King James, the Loss of Rochel, and the Blood of Ireland. By John Cook, of Grays-Inn, Barrester. Justice is an excellent Vertue: Reason is the Life of the Law. Womanish Pity to mourn for a Tyrant, is a deceitful Cruelty to a City. Whosoever is govern'd by a Man without a Law, is govern'd by a Man, and by a Beast. Aristotle.
Cook, John, d. 1660.Date: 1714
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A genuine account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words, of the three Scots rebels , viz. Donald Macdonald, James Nicholson; and Walter Ogilvie, (all Officers in the Young Pretender's Service.) who were executed the 22d day of August 1746, for high treason, at Kennington Common, In levying War against his Most Sacred Majesty King George the Second.
Date: M,DCC,XLVI. [1746]
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The whole tryal of Edward Coleman, Gent. at the Kings-Bench Bar, at Westminster, on the 27th of November, 1678. Dedicated to Wialliam [sic] Greg, in Newgate, ..
Coleman, Edward, d. 1678.Date: [1708?]
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The trial of William Stone , for high treason, at the bar of the Court of King's Bench, on Thursday the twenty-eighth, and Friday the twenty-ninth of January, 1796. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney.
Stone, William, merchant.Date: 1796
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The trial at large of John Thelwall . For high treason; before the special commission, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey: began on Monday, December 1, and continued until Friday 5, 1794. With the whole proceedings of the Attorney and Solicitor General on the Part of the Crown; and Mr. Erskine and Mr. Gibbs for the prisoner. By John Newton, Esq.
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834.Date: [1795?]
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The trial of Mr. Thomas Hardy , for high treason: containing the whole proceedings, from the Opening of the Special Commission, the Judge's Charge to the Grand Jury, Lists of the Witnesses, Jurors, and the bills of indictment found against Thomas Hardy, John Horne Tooke, John Augustus Bonney, Stewart Kyd, Jeremiah Joyce, Thomas Wardle, Thomas Holcroft, John Richter, Matthew Moore John Thelwall, Richard Hodgson, John Baxter. Together with the arguments of counsel on the Part of the Crown, and in Defence of the Prisoner. Accurately taken in short-hand, by Manoah Sibly, Short-Hand writer to the City of London.
Thomas HardyDate: 1794
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The trials at large of Thomas Hardy, and others; for high treason, which began on Saturday, October 25, 1794. at the Old Bailey
Thomas HardyDate: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]
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The lords protests in the last session of Parliament; particularly touching the late horrid and detestable conspiracy. Being an appendix to the reports and appendixes of the Committees of both Houses
House of LordsDate: MDCCXXIII. [1723]
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A genuine letter of advice and consolation, written from Paris by the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, to the Earl of Oxford. Faithfully publish'd from the original
Date: MDCCXV. [1715]
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A genuine account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words, of Francis Townly, (nominal) Colonel of the Manchester Regiment, Thomas Deacon, James Dawson, John Barwick, George Fletcher and Andrew Blood, Captains in the Manchester Regiment; Thomas Chadwick, Lieutenant, Thomas Sydall, Adjutant in the same; and Counsellor David Morgan, a Voluntier in the Pretender's Army. Who were executed the 30th day of July, 1746, a Kennington Common, for high treason, In levying War against his most Sacred Majesty King George the Second
Date: [1746]
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The trial at large of Thomas Hardy , for high treason; before the special commission, at the Session-House in the Old-Bailey: began on Tuesday, October 28, and continued until Wednesday, November 5, 1794. With the Whole Proceedings of the Attorney and Solicitor General on the Part of the Crown; and Mr. Erskine and Mr. Gibbs for the Prisoner. By John Newton, Esq.
Thomas HardyDate: [1794?]
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The speech of Vicary Gibbs, esq. in defence of J. H. Tooke, esq. tried by special commission on a charge of high treason. Accurately taken in short hand by J. H. Blanchard.
Gibbs, Vicary, Sir, 1751-1820.Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]
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The whole proceeding upon the arraignment, tryal, conviction and attainder of Christopher Layer, Esq for high treason, in Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King. In the court of King's-Bench at Westminster, in Michaelmas Term; In the Ninth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord George, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain France and Ireland: Annoq; Domini 1722. Perused by the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice, and the rest of the Judges of the Court of King's-Bench, and by the Counsel for His Majesty, and for the Prisoner.
Christopher LayerDate: 1722 [i.e.1723]
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The trial of George Gordon , Esquire, commonly called Lord George Gordon, for high treason, at the bar of the Court of King's Bench, on Monday, February 5th, 1781. The fifth edition. Taken in short-hand, by Joseph Gurney.
Lord George GordonDate: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]