The life of ... Sir John Holt ... With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports ... / By a gentlemen of the Inner-Temple [i.e. John Rayner].

  • John Holt
Date:
1764
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Credit: The life of ... Sir John Holt ... With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports ... / By a gentlemen of the Inner-Temple [i.e. John Rayner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    perty; his Lordfhip was always remarkably ftre- nuous in nobly afferting and as vigoroufly fup- porting the Rights and Liberties of the Subjedt, to which he paid the greateft Regard upon all Oc- Gallons, and never fuffered the leaft Reflection tending to depreciate either to pafs uncenfured, or indeed, without the fevered Reprimand; in Confirmation of which, we have inferted the fol¬ lowing mofi; extraordinary Infiance. t£ Mrs. Stout, d Mother of Mrs. Sarah Stout, feed a Writ of Appeal out of Chancery again ft Spencer Ccwper, Efq; youngeft d Son of Sir Wil¬ liam Cowper, Baronet, Barrifter e at Law, Juft ice of Peace, Captain of the Militia, [and afterwards King’s f Council, and one of the g Juftices of the Court of Common Pleas] for the fuppofed h Mur¬ der of her Daughter, in the Name of an Infant, who was a Relation to the faid Sarah Stout, and her Heir; and before the Writ was returnable, procured himfelf to be admitted Guardian to the Infant in the faid Appeal by the Lord Chief Ju- ftice d Holt, at his Chambers. After this, the Friends and Mother of the Infant, being d influen¬ ced d Lord Raym. Rep. P. 555. e Mod. Rep. 12V0L P. 372. f Id. P. 478. g Lord Raym. Rep. 2 Vol. P. 1510. Append, to Cbron. Juri- dicial. P. 17. h See his Trial in Salmon's critical Review of the State Trials, P. 717. where you will find his Obfervations upon that Trial. -He fays, it was one of the moft memorable ones in the Age, and the World, to this Day, divided in their Opinions, concerning the In- nocency- cf the Prifoner. Id. Ibid. It is the fi^fi Trial in the ! Cohesion, publifhed in 1734, in four Volumes folio.