A Collection of the Most Remarkable and Interesting Trials: Particularly of Those Persons who Have Forfeited Their Lives to the Injured Laws of Their Country, Volume 2R. Snagg, 1776 - Trials |
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... Crimes for which they were tried , and the Punishments of fuch as were convicted in the fecond Volume . Year Names . Crimes . Punishments . Page A 1586 Abington , Edward 1753 Abbotsbury Men High Treafon Perjury Hanged Acquitted 537 641 ...
... Crimes for which they were tried , and the Punishments of fuch as were convicted in the fecond Volume . Year Names . Crimes . Punishments . Page A 1586 Abington , Edward 1753 Abbotsbury Men High Treafon Perjury Hanged Acquitted 537 641 ...
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... crime as that you are charged with . If it were not If it were not fo , but he was always bred in that religion , yet there are very great penalties that he is fubject to , as , the confifcation of two third parts of his eftate , and ...
... crime as that you are charged with . If it were not If it were not fo , but he was always bred in that religion , yet there are very great penalties that he is fubject to , as , the confifcation of two third parts of his eftate , and ...
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... crime would do it , more than the pretence of any particular perfuafion of religion . Nay , I muft crave leave to fay farther , that this ar- gument is fo far from making him no wit- nefs , that it makes the more likely he does fpeak ...
... crime would do it , more than the pretence of any particular perfuafion of religion . Nay , I muft crave leave to fay farther , that this ar- gument is fo far from making him no wit- nefs , that it makes the more likely he does fpeak ...
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... crime with which he now ftands charged . But now you are to confider what Sir John Freind fays on behalf of himself . In the first place , he makes an objection against the credit of all thefe witneffes , that they are not to be ...
... crime with which he now ftands charged . But now you are to confider what Sir John Freind fays on behalf of himself . In the first place , he makes an objection against the credit of all thefe witneffes , that they are not to be ...
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... crime hat amounts to felony ; and though the law doth not take away from him that hall be convicted thereof , the benefit of his clergy ; yet , fince it is fuch a crime as doth take away from the prifoner the af- fiftance of council , I ...
... crime hat amounts to felony ; and though the law doth not take away from him that hall be convicted thereof , the benefit of his clergy ; yet , fince it is fuch a crime as doth take away from the prifoner the af- fiftance of council , I ...
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