Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period [1163] to the Present Time [1820].

Thomas Bayly Howell

R. Bagshaw, 1813 - Trials

Contents

• The Trial of JAMES CARNEGIE of Finhaven before the Court: 73
• The Case of EDMUND CURL Bookseller in the KingsBench: 153
• The Trial of Mr WILLIAM HALES at the SessionsHouse: 209
• The Trial of WILLIAM HALES for a Misdemeanor in obtaining: 227
• The Trial of WILLIAM HALES for a Misdemeanor in obtaining: 265
• The Trial of WILLIAM HALES for fraudulently forging: 287
• The Trial of JOHN HUGGINS esq Warden of the Fleet Prison: 309
• The Trial of THOMAS BAMBRIDGE esq late Warden of: 383
• The Trial of THOMAS BAMBRIDGE esq and RICHARD: 397
• The Trial of WILLIAM ACTON DeputyKeeper and Head: 461
• The Trial of JOHN OLIPHANT and others for drinking to: 491
• The Trial of WILLIAM ACTON for the Murder of John Brom: 511
• The Trial of WILLIAM ACTON for the Murder of Robert New: 525
• The Trial of WILLIAM ACTON for the Murder of James: 543
• 48ô Several Proceedings relating to the bailing Mr BAMBRIDGE both: 563
• The Trial of THOMAS BAMBRIDGE esq for Felony A D: 581
• Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee appointed to enquire: 619
• The Trial of Mr JOHN PETER ZENGER of New York Printer: 675
• first published from the Records of Justiciary at Edinburgh N 76: 781
• The Trial of JAMES GEDDES and JOHN CRAWFOORD Ser: 799
• Case of the KING against RICHARD ELLES A D 1734 Upon: 821
• Case of HENRY MOORE Plaintiff against the Mayor Jurats: 845
• Proceedings in the Trial of Captain JOHN PORTEOUS for Mur: 923
• The Trial of WILLIAM MACLAUCHLAN for Mobbing Mur: 993
• The Trials of SAMUEL GOODERE esq MATTHEW: 1003
• The Trial of CHARLES WHITE for the Murder of Sir John: 1079
• The Trial of JAMES ANNESLEY and JOSEPH REDDING: 1093
• The Trial in Ejectment between CAMPBELL CRAIG Lessee: 1139

Popular passages

Page 615 - It is now by Statute 32 G. 3, c. 60, settled, that the jury may give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty upon the whole matter put to issue on the indictment or information. See vol. 8, p. 36. As to the contests which had arisen respecting this matter, see the following Case of

Page 663 - corrupt officers are appointed to administer affairs, is certainly a reflection on the government. If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist ; for it is necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it ; and nothing

Page 87 - hate his neighbour, and lye in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally, that he die:" Not one word here of rising- up against one and killing another ; not a word of hating one, and in consequence of that hatred killing another: that was a case which did not

Page 915 - look upon the juror: You shall well and truly try, and true deliverance make, between our sovereign lord the king and the prisoners at the bar, whom you shall have in charge, and a true verdict give, according to your evidence : So help you God.

Page 629 - for (said he) you thought to have gained a great deal of applause and popularity by opposing this court, as you did the court of Exchequer ; but you have brought it to that point, that either we must go from the bench, or you from the bar : therefore we exclude

Page 653 - tried by twelve like lawful men, here is a power given to the lord chancellor, lord treasurer, the keeper of the king's privy seal, or two of them, calling to them a bishop, a temporal lord, and other great men mentioned in the act, (who, it is to be observed, were all to be dependants

Page 659 - them' [innuendo, the people of this province] « to err, and they' [the governor and council meaning] ' are destroyed' [innuendo, are deceived into the loss of their liberty] ; which is the worst kind of destruction. Or if some persons should publicly repeat, in a manner not pleasing to his betters, the 10th aud the

Page 661 - foundation for new oppressions and prosecutions. I wish I could say there were no instances of this kind. But to conclude ; the question before the Court, and you, gentlemen of the jury, is not of small

Page 83 - and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die." Here are both sides of the question put, the one fully to explain the other ; the last to explain what is meant by

Page 679 - not tend to beget an ill opinion of the administration of the government ; to tell us, that those that are employed know nothing of the matter, and those that do know are not employed. Men are not adapted to offices, but offices to men, out of a particular

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period [1163] to the Present Time [1820].; Volume 17 of Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period [1163] to the Present Time [1820], Thomas Bayly Howell; Volume 17 of Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ...: From the Ninth Year of the Reign of King Henry, the Second, A. D. 1163, to, Thomas Bayly Howell
• Author: Thomas Bayly Howell
• Publisher: R. Bagshaw, 1813