The trial of James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers in full Parliament for felony, on Tuesday, the 16th day of February 1841 / Published by Order of the House of Peers.

  • James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
Date:
1841
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Credit: The trial of James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers in full Parliament for felony, on Tuesday, the 16th day of February 1841 / Published by Order of the House of Peers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deputy Clerk of the Crown. How will your lordship be tried ? Earl of Cardigan. By my peers. Deputy Clerk of the Crown. God send your lordship a good deliverance. Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Waddington appeared as counsel for the prosecution. Sir William Follett, Mr. Serjeant Wrangham, and Mr. Adolphus appeared as counsel for the Earl of Cardigan. Proclamation was made for all persons who had been summoned to give evidence to appear and give the same. His Grace the Lord High Steward, by leave of the Court, removed to the table, preceded by Garter and Black Rod; and his Grace being seated, Black Rod took his seat on a stool at the corner of the table on his Grace’s right hand, holding the white staff, Garter on a stool on Black Rod’s right, and the Serjeant at the lower end of the table on the same side. Mr. Waddington. May it please your lordships :—-This noble lord, James Thomas Ear] of Cardigan, the prisoner at your lordships’ bar, stands indicted for feloniously shooting at Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett. The indictment charges, in the first count, that his lordship, on the 12th day of September in the fourth year of the reign of our sovereign Lady Victoria, at Wandsworth in the county of Surrey, with a certain pistol loaded with gunpowder and a leaden ball, feloniously and unlawfully shot at Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett, with intent to murder him; the second count states the intention to have been to maim and disable him; and the third count states the intention to have been to do him some grievous bodily harm. ‘To this indictment the noble lord has pleaded that he is not guilty, and for his trial has put himself upon your lords ships, his peers.