A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, Volume 1Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Trials |
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... death : ' Tis true , this is not used to force the Prisoner to confess , but to plead one way or other ; but yet even this seems a needless piece of severity . In High - Treason , if the party refuse to plead , the Charge is taken pro ...
... death : ' Tis true , this is not used to force the Prisoner to confess , but to plead one way or other ; but yet even this seems a needless piece of severity . In High - Treason , if the party refuse to plead , the Charge is taken pro ...
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... death ( e ) . " As to other less Offenders , it would be a more equitable and effectual Punishment to confine them to hard ( f ) labour at home ; or , if they deserve it , to sell them to the Moors or Spaniards abroad : it is Idleness ...
... death ( e ) . " As to other less Offenders , it would be a more equitable and effectual Punishment to confine them to hard ( f ) labour at home ; or , if they deserve it , to sell them to the Moors or Spaniards abroad : it is Idleness ...
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... death of king John , his father , from which time he took upon him the keeping and chamberlains , wherefore , after the death of Eustace de Faucumberg , bishop of Lon- don , and treasurer , it was required , that his Account should be ...
... death of king John , his father , from which time he took upon him the keeping and chamberlains , wherefore , after the death of Eustace de Faucumberg , bishop of Lon- don , and treasurer , it was required , that his Account should be ...
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... death , were in the king's hand ; and Lhewelin forced the king to do what he would have him ; had rendered himself into the lords hands to the and had almost done it . The tenour of the Bill king's grace and pleasure , and upon that ...
... death , were in the king's hand ; and Lhewelin forced the king to do what he would have him ; had rendered himself into the lords hands to the and had almost done it . The tenour of the Bill king's grace and pleasure , and upon that ...
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... death by an erroneous the town of Burton aforesaid , and feloniously proceeding against him at that time had , by burned part of the houses and goods of the reason of which judgment he was put to death , same town ; and after that the ...
... death by an erroneous the town of Burton aforesaid , and feloniously proceeding against him at that time had , by burned part of the houses and goods of the reason of which judgment he was put to death , same town ; and after that the ...
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