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 13Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816 - Trials |
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... answer voluntarily , he may . Freind . I humbly beg your lordship that he may answer the question . L. Č . J. I cannot see you have a right to have this question answered you . Freind Mr. Porter , you are a gentleman , and I desire you ...
... answer voluntarily , he may . Freind . I humbly beg your lordship that he may answer the question . L. Č . J. I cannot see you have a right to have this question answered you . Freind Mr. Porter , you are a gentleman , and I desire you ...
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... answer the question . L. C. J. No man is bound to answer any question that tends to make him accuse him- self , or subject him to any penalties . Freind . My lord , I do with submission de- sire it , and it is no great matter for him to ...
... answer the question . L. C. J. No man is bound to answer any question that tends to make him accuse him- self , or subject him to any penalties . Freind . My lord , I do with submission de- sire it , and it is no great matter for him to ...
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... answer . Att . Gen. Pray now tell us , what other meetings you have had about this matter this winter ? Porter . I was once with sir George Barcley and sir John Freind , at the Nag's - head in St. James's - street ; I cannot tell what ...
... answer . Att . Gen. Pray now tell us , what other meetings you have had about this matter this winter ? Porter . I was once with sir George Barcley and sir John Freind , at the Nag's - head in St. James's - street ; I cannot tell what ...
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... answer of yours before now : I have been afflicted with the gout in my hand and foot , that I have not been able to put pen to paper ; ( I thank God ) I am somewhat better , and do hope to be in London a Thursday next , about the hour ...
... answer of yours before now : I have been afflicted with the gout in my hand and foot , that I have not been able to put pen to paper ; ( I thank God ) I am somewhat better , and do hope to be in London a Thursday next , about the hour ...
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... answer to the evidence given against him , and has weight enough to out - balance what the wit- nesses for the king have sworn ? For although he was a Protestant , yet it is plain he had no great liking to the government ; and therefore ...
... answer to the evidence given against him , and has weight enough to out - balance what the wit- nesses for the king have sworn ? For although he was a Protestant , yet it is plain he had no great liking to the government ; and therefore ...
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Page 431 - Lord's Table, until he hath openly declared himself to have truly repented and amended his former naughty life...
Page 311 - You shall well and truly try and true deliverance make between our sovereign lord the King" (or the State or People, or the United States, as the case may be,) " and the prisoner at the bar, whom you shall have in charge, according to your evidence. So help you God.
Page 157 - ... truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!
Page 731 - ... it is accorded, that if any other case supposed treason which is not above specified, doth happen before any justices, the justices shall tarry without any going to judgment of the treason, till the cause be shewed and declared before the King and his parliament, whether it ought to be judged treason or other felony.
Page 149 - One thousand six hundred ninety six, shall have Copies of the Panel of the Jurors who are to try them, duly returned by the Sheriff, and delivered unto them, and every of them so accused and indicted respectively, Two Days at the least before he or they shall be tried for the same...
Page 411 - Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special confession of his sins, if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter. After which confession, the Priest shall absolve him (if he humbly and heartily desire it) after this sort.
Page 65 - Hackett of the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, in the County of Middlesex, Perukemaker, and James Guthrie of the parish of St.
Page 431 - So many as intend to be partakers of the Holy Communion, shall signify their names to the Curate, at least some time the day before.
Page 911 - That the rebels may not think themselves desperate, we allow you to give terms and quarters, but in this manner only, that chieftains and heritors, or leaders, be prisoners of war, their lives only safe, and all other things in mercy, they taking the oath of allegiance; and the community taking the oath of allegiance, and rendering their arms, and submitting to the government, are to have quarters and indemnity for their lives and fortunes, and to be protected from the soldiers, as the principal...
Page 535 - Foster, is rendered the more certain by a reference to the case in the State Trials from which the extracts are taken. The words used by the Chief Justice are, "when men form themselves into a body, and march, rank and file, with weapons offensive and defensive, this is levying of war with open force, if the design be public.