Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason: And Other Crimes and Misdemeanor from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... from the Ninth Year of the Reign of King Henry, the Second, A.D.1163, to ... [George IV, A.D.1820], Volume 16

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Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell
R. Bagshaw, 1812 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 89 - You shall be taken from the place where you are, and be carried to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be severally hanged by your necks until you be dead. And the Lord have mercy on your souls.
Page 611 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 421 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to give directions that a monument be erected in the Cathedral Church of ST.
Page 647 - Because the annexing pleasure to some actions, and pain to others, in our power to do or forbear, and giving notice of this appointment beforehand to those whom it concerns, is the proper formal notion of government.
Page 7 - Harden, of said county, yeoman, not having the fear of God before their eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 5 - If anyone can inform my lords, the King's Justices, the King's Sergeant or the King's Attorney General, ere this Inquest be taken between our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoners at the bar, of any treasons, murders, felonies or misdemeanours, done or committed by the prisoners at the bar, let them- come forth and they shall be heard...
Page 7 - Manner and by the means aforesaid, feloniously wilfully and of their Malice aforethought did kill and Murder, against the peace of the People of the State of New York and their Dignity.
Page 77 - ... had at the time of the felony committed, or at any time since ; if you find him not guilty, then you shall inquire if he did fly for it, or not...
Page 61 - Majesty's subject; that then and in every such case, the person or persons so offending, their counsellors, aiders and abettors, (knowing of, and privy to the ofience, as aforesaid, ) shall be and are hereby declared to be felons, and shall suffer death, as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy.
Page 135 - James, and since his decease, pretending to be, and taking upon himself the Stile and Title of King of England, by the name of James the Third...

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