A Complete Collection of State Trials Vol. XX

COMPLETE COLLECTION

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:

COMPILED BY

T. B. HOWELL, Esq. F.R. S. F.S.A.

INCLUDING,

IN ADDITION TO THE WHOLE OF THE MATTER CONTAINED IN THE

FOLIO EDITION OF HARGRAVE,

UPWARDS OF TWO HUNDRED CASES NEVER BEFORE COLLECTED;

TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED

A TABLE OF PARALLEL REFERENCE,

RENDERING THIS EDITION APPLICABLE TO THOSE BOOKS OF AUTHORITY IN
WHICH REFERENCES ARE MADE TO THE FOLIO EDITION.

IN TWENTY-ONE VOLUMES.

VOL. XX.

12-17 GEORGE III.......1772-1777.

LONDON:

Printed by T. C. Hansard, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street :

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; J. M. RICHARDSON;
BLACK, PARBURY, AND ALLEN; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY;
E. JEFFERY; J. HATCHARD; R. H. EVANS; J. BOOKER; E. LLOYD;
J. BOOTH; BUDD AND CALKIN; AND T. C. HANSARD.

1816.

JAN

1925

ADVERTISEMENT.

IN this Volume the Cases reported in the last Folio Edition of the State Trials are brought to a termination; the Case of Horne, p. 651, being the last contained in that Collection. After which commences the New Series of Proceedings, continuing that Edition to the present time.

In order to render the present Work more applicable to those Law Books in which references are made to the Folio Edition, a TABLE of PARALLEL Reference, exhibiting at first sight the Pages in the present Edition corresponding with those of the Folio ones, is now in compilation, and will be published with the next Volume.

FEB. 1814.

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VOLUME XX.

REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD.

548. THE Case of JAMES SOMMERSETT, a Negro, on a Habeas

Corpus, A. D. 1771-1772 ...

ADDENDA to this Case

...

......... 1369

549. Proceedings in an Action by Mr. ANTHONY FABRIGAS, against

Lieutenant-General MOSTYN, Governor of Minorca, for False

Imprisonment and Banishment, A. D. 1773-1774 ...