A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 22Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817 - Trials |
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... Trial of PATRICK WILLIAM DUFFIN and THOMAS LLOYD , for a Seditious Libel , A. D. 1792 574. Proceedings on the Trial of an Information against THOMAS PAINE , for a Libel upon the Revolution and Settlement of the Crown and Regal ...
... Trial of PATRICK WILLIAM DUFFIN and THOMAS LLOYD , for a Seditious Libel , A. D. 1792 574. Proceedings on the Trial of an Information against THOMAS PAINE , for a Libel upon the Revolution and Settlement of the Crown and Regal ...
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... Trial of an Information , exhibited Ex - Officio , by his Majesty's Attorney General , against DANIEL ISAAC EATON ... Trial of an Indictment against WILLIAM WINTERBOTHAM , for Seditious Words uttered in a Sermon , preached on the 5th of ...
... Trial of an Information , exhibited Ex - Officio , by his Majesty's Attorney General , against DANIEL ISAAC EATON ... Trial of an Indictment against WILLIAM WINTERBOTHAM , for Seditious Words uttered in a Sermon , preached on the 5th of ...
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... trial , Nov. 10 , 1783 . passed according to the course of the excheMr. Bearcroft . In the case of the king quer ; and that there were many sums of and Bembridge , I am to move your lordship money , amounting to the sum of 48,0001 ...
... trial , Nov. 10 , 1783 . passed according to the course of the excheMr. Bearcroft . In the case of the king quer ; and that there were many sums of and Bembridge , I am to move your lordship money , amounting to the sum of 48,0001 ...
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... trial , to call upon my learned friend to produce it ; I do not believe yet he has found one ; at that time , most undoubt- edly , he was not in possession of it ; if he has now , we shall hear of it when he comes to show cause , if it ...
... trial , to call upon my learned friend to produce it ; I do not believe yet he has found one ; at that time , most undoubt- edly , he was not in possession of it ; if he has now , we shall hear of it when he comes to show cause , if it ...
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... trial , that is , take the fact as I have did from that which had been sent to us in now stated it , whether it is an indictable penciled figures : and then that account is crime , or not . The two first questions were produced in court ...
... trial , that is , take the fact as I have did from that which had been sent to us in now stated it , whether it is an indictable penciled figures : and then that account is crime , or not . The two first questions were produced in court ...
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Page 465 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 437 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 359 - King there inhabiting and being, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 383 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 385 - That excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders.
Page 361 - An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown...
Page 383 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 437 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us ; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Page 385 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 407 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the Judge ; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favour the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very Judge to be his Counsel.