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 25Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell R. Bagshaw, 1818 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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