The Trials of All the Prisoners Who Were Try'd at the Assizes Held...
Trials at the Kent Assizes [Trials]. [Great Britain]. The Trials of All the Prisoners Who were Try'd at the Assizes Held at Maidstone, For the County of Kent, On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Being the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, And 23d of March, 1749-50, Before the Hon. Sir Thomas Denison, Knt. One of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench. London: Printed for G. Griffith, 1750. 11, [1] pp. Quarto (8-1/2" x 6-1/2"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning, light soiling and faint staining, trimming to top-edge affecting page numbers without loss to legibility, leaves separating in places but secure, small tear to gutter of final leaf affecting text without loss to legibility, ink and pencil asterisks to margin of p.5. Rare. $850. * Second edition. These accounts of trials at the Kent assizes cover a wide range of offenses, including rape, arson, robbery, assault and "sending several threatening Letters." The most extensive account is the trial of Stephen Barret and Joseph Gregory for abducting and assaulting John Clarke on the orders of rival farmer John Collington, who had hired a third man to set fire to the unlucky Mr. Clarke's barn. No copies of the first or third edition located; OCLC locates 4 copies of the second edition (British Library, National Library of Scotland, Cornell University, York Law School). English Short-Title Catalogue T69869.
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