"Violating Her Conjugal Vow" [Trial]. Bayntun-Rolt, Maria Alicia Coventry, Lady. The Trial of the Right Honourable Lady Maria Bayntun, Daughter of the Right Hon. George William, Earl of Coventry, And Wife of Andrew Bayntun, Esq; Son of Sir Edward Bayntun, Baronet, In the Arches Court at Doctors Commons, For Committing..... More
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"The Murder of Mrs. Sarah Stout, A Quaker" [Trial]. Cowper, Spencer [1669-1728], Principal Defendant. The Tryal of Spencer Cowper, Esq; John Marson, Ellis Stevens, And William Rogers, Gent. Upon an Indictment for the Murther of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker. Before Mr. Baron Hatsell, At Hertford Assizes, July 18, 1699..... More
Lord Admiral Nelson Testified as a Character Witness [Trial]. Despard, Edward Marcus [1751-1803], Primary Defendant. The Trial of Colonel Despard and His Associates, For High Treason, And a Conspiracy, &c. &c. Before Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough and the Other Commissioners, At the New Sessions-House, In the County of Surry [sic]..... More
One of the Last People Executed for Forgery in Great Britain [Trial] Fauntleroy, Henry [1785-1824], Defendant. Egan, Pierce [1772-1849], Reporter. Pierce Egan's Account of the Trial of Mr.Fauntleroy, For Forgery, At the Session's-House, In the Old Bailey, On Saturday, The 30th of October, 1824, Before Mr.Justice Park and Mr.Baron Garrow..... More
A Notorious Case of Wrongful Conviction that Led to the Creation of the English Court of Criminal Appeal [Trial]. [Adolf Beck Case]. Committee of Inquiry into the Case of Mr. Adolf Beck. Report from the Committee; Together with Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, And Facsimiles of Various Documents. Presented to Both..... More
The Model for Mr. Jaggers in Dickens's Great Expectations [Trial]. Harmer, James [1777-1853]. [Holloway, John (d. 1807), Defendant]. [Haggerty, Owen (d. 1807), Defendant]. Murder of Mr. Steele: Documents and Observations Tending to Shew a Probability of the Innocence of John Holloway and Owen Haggerty, Who Were Executed on Monday the..... More
[Trial]. [Henry, Joseph, Defendant]. Report of the Trial of Joseph Henry, Esq., In the Sheriff's Court, On Friday, Jan. 20, 1809, For Criminal Conversation with Lady Emily Best. London: Printed by B. McMillan, 1809. [ii], 50, [1] pp. Includes one-page advertisement. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light soiling..... More
Scarce English Embezzlement Trial [Trial]. Hewlitt, John Churcher, Defendant. The Trial of John Churcher Hewlitt, Acting Deputy Prothonotary of the Place-Court, At the Old Bailey, On Wednesday, April 14, 1813, on Charges Preferred by William Cruchley, Of John-Street, Bedford-Row, Attorney-at-Law, For Alleged Embezzlements of Moneys Arising from Fees of Office;..... More
One of the Most Detailed Accounts of a Major Nineteenth-Century Financial Swindle [Trial]. Hughes, W. Hughes, Editor. "The Times" Testimonal: Report of the Trial of the Action, Bogle Versus Lawson, For a Libel Published in "The Times" London-Newspaper, Tried at the Summer Assizes for the Country of Surrey, Held at..... More
The Legality of Lord Russell's Trial [Trial]. [Rye House Plot]. Atkyns, Sir Robert [1621-1709]. A Defence of the Late Lord Russel's Innocency, By Way of An Answer or Confutation of a Libellous Pamphlet, Intituled, An Antidote Against Poyson; With Two Letters of the Author of This Book, Upon the Subject..... More
A Triumph for Tories and High-Churchmen [Trial]. Sacheverell, Henry [1674-1724], Defendant. The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, Before the House of Peers, For High Crimes and Misdemeanors; Upon an Impeachment by the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled, In the Name of Themselves, And of All the Commons of..... More
Not Listed on COPAC or OCLC [Trial]. Taylor, Edward, Defendant. Taylor, Robert, Defendant. The Defence of Mr. Edward Taylor, Delivered by Him on the Trial of Himself and His Brother, Robert Taylor, On the Sixteenth of January 1816, at the Old Bailey, On an Indictment Charging them with Forging and..... More
With a Duplicate Colored Frontispiece Annotated by George Cruikshank [Trial]. Thistlewood, Arthur [1770-1820], Defendant. Watson, James, Defendant. Preston, Thomas, Defendant. Hooper, John, Defendant. [Cruikshank, Isaac (1764-1811), Illustrator]. [Cruikshank, George (1792-1878), Annotation]. High Treason!! The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of Arthur Thistlewood, Gent. James Watson, The Elder, Surgeon, Thomas Preston..... More
Trial Notable for "Dr. Winslow's Analysis of the Convict's Mind" [Trial]. Townley, George Victor [b. 1838], Defendant. The Trial and Respite of George Victor Townley for Wilful Murder. With Original Documents and Correspondence Now First Published; Dr. Winslow's Analysis of the Convict's Mind, Portraits, Autographs and Plan. Derby: W. Bemrose..... More
A Member of a Plot to Depose James II? [Trial]. Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of [1652-1694], Defendant. The Tryal of Henry Baron Delamere for High-Treason, In Westminster-Hall, The 14th Day of January, 1685. Before the Right Honourable George Lord Jeffreys, Baron of Wemm, Lord High Chancellour of England, Constituted Lord..... More
An English Radical is Charged with Blasphemy in Defense of a Fellow Radical [Trial]. Wedderburn, Rob[er]t [1762-1835/36?], Defendant. Perkins, Erasmus, Editor. The Trial of the Rev. Robt. Wedderburn, (A Dissenting Minister of the Unitarian Persuasion,) For Blasphemy, Before Sir Charles Abbott, Knight, Lord Chief-Justice, And a Special Jury, In the..... More
Notable Libel Trial With a Defence by Lord Brougham [Trial]. Williams, John Ambrose [1793-1854], Defendant. The Trial of John Ambrose Williams, For a Libel on the Clergy, Contained in the Durham Chronicle of August 18, 1821. Before Mr. Baron Wood and a Special Jury. Tried at the Summer Assizes, At..... More
"A Figure with the Body, Feet, And Tail of a Rat, With the Head and Face of a Man, (Resembling the Plaintiff)" [Trial]. Wood, William, Defendant. St. Luke's Parish Malt!!! Fairburn's Edition of the Trial Between Doctor Smith and Mr. Wm. Wood: For a Malicious and Scandalous Libel Against the..... More
Trials at Old Bailey, Indexed by Crime [Trials]. [Great Britain]. Select Trials for Murder, Robbery, Burglary, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Forgery, Pyracy, And Other Offences and Misdemeanours, At the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey. To Which are Added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Exploits, Behaviour, Confessions, And Dying Speeches. Of the Most..... More
The Trial of "Weeping Billy" [Trials]. Greenaway, Thomas ("Weeping Billy"), Defendant. Duncan, William, Defendant. Maycock, John, Defendant. Pope, John, Defendant. Augustus, John, Defendant. The Trial of Weeping Billy, For the Wilful Murder of Ann Webb. Also, the Trials of William Duncan, For the Wilful Murder of W. Chivers, Esq., John..... More
Three Items About a Plot to Assassinate King George III with a Poison Dart, One Inscribed by an Alleged Plotter [Trials]. Lemaitre, P[aul] T[homas] [1776-1864], Defendant. High Treason!! Narrative of the Arrest, Examinations Before the Privy Council, And Imprisonment of P.T Lemaitre, Accused of Being a Party in the Pop-Gun..... More