REPORT OF. SOME PROCEEDINGS ΟΝ ΤΗ Ε COMMISSION OF OYER AND TERMINER FOR THE TRIAL OF THE REBELS IN THE YEAR 1746 IN THE COUNTY OF SURRY, AND OF OTHER CROWN CASES. TO WHICH ARE ADDED DISCOURSES UPON A FEW BRANCHES OF THE CROWN LAW. Foster, Sir Michael DUBLIN: Printed by SARAH COTTER, in Skinner-Row: THE PREF A C E. NOW fubmit to public Cenfure a Report of a few Crown Cafes, which for the most Part have fallen within my own Obfervation, and in which I have taken fome Share. What other Notes I have taken merely for my own use, are too crude and imperfect to admit of a Publication; and as I have neither leifure nor inclination to revife them, they will never fee the Light. I have in this Report taken a larger Scope, and entered more fully into the State of many of the Cafes and the Reasoning on them, than most of my Contemporaries have done; and this hath drawn me into a greater Length than they have allowed to themselves. Brevity I have endeavoured to confult as far as my Subject will admit of it. But the Affectation of Brevity at the Expence of Perfpicuity can anfwer no valuable Purpose. LEARNED Men who have employed their Time in tranfmitting to Pofterity with Accuracy, Precifion and true Judgment, an History of Cases of Weight and Difficulty falling within their own Experience, have been real Benefactors to the Public; and their Memory is and ever will be treated with due Efteem. But many of the hafty indigefted Things called Reports of adjudged Cafes, not deferving the Name of tolerable Abridgments, ftuffed, as they frequently are, with the Obiter Opi A 2 nions |