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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. Action of debt to recover penalties for sitting and voting in Parliament without taking the oath therein prescribed. It was found by special verdict that the defendant professed the Jewish religion, and that, having been returned to the Commons House of Parliament for the borough of Greenwich, he had taken the statutory oath of aberration by kissing the old Testament in the manner binding on his conscience, but had omitted the concluding words of the oath, "upon the true faith of a Christian", and that he had offered to subscribe the oath with the same emission, and it afterward sat and voted. 41 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. On June 27th, 1850, Robert Pate, formerly a lietenant in the 10th Light dragoons, struck the queen on the forehead with a short stick, as the royal carriage was being driven out of the yard of Cambridge House into Piccadilly. Evidence of insanity was give. Verdict, Guilty. Sentenced to be transported for seven years. 26 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. Infringement of Civil Rights of Patrons. 42 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1892, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 58 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 10 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 23 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. In February 1845, the Felicidade, a Brazilian schooner, having been captured by HMS Wasp, on a charge of slave trading, was placed in charge of an English officer and crew, and sent in pursuit of the Echo, a Brazilian brigantine, which was also captured a similar charge. The crew of the Echo having been transferred as prisoners to the Felicidade, six of them, together with one of the crew, rose and killed the English officer and crew in charge of the Felicidade, and run away with the vessel. They were recaptured, indicted at Exeter for murder on the high seas, and found guilty; the case was reserved for the opinions of the judges. By treaty with Brazil it provided that the carrying on of the slave trade by Brazilian subjects should be deemed and treated as piracy, and regulations for the capture by British vessels of war of Brazilian vessels engaged in slave trading were incorporated in the treaty. These regulations were not duly observed in the captures of the Felicidade and the Echo. 20 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. The acting judge of a Discrict Crminal Court in Bengal, caused the appellant, a British born subject, to be arrested and detained on a charge of riot. 8 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1892, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. In June 1830 Viscount Courtenay presented a petition to the King, claiming the Earldon of Devon as heir male of Sir Edward Courtenay. 61 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. By certain treaties the Government of France agreed to pay to Spain a sum of money to be distributed among such Spanish subjects as had claims against the French Government. 8 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 7 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. In August 1848, Kevin Izod O'Doherty, one of the registered proprietors and publishers of the Irish Tribune newspaper, was indicted for feloniously compassing to depose the Queen, etcetera, and to levy war against the Queen, etcetera, and expressing, uttering, and declaring such compassings by publishing certain articles in the Irish Tribune, one of which was proved, at the second and third trials, to be in his handwriting. At the first two trials the jury disagreed; the third trial, verdict, guilty. 47 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. The plaintiff served as one of the churchwardens of a parish in the British Colony of Bermuda of which the defendant was Governor. 3 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. The defendants attended a meeting at Birmingham on the 12th July 1819, at which speeches reflecting upon the House of Commons as then constituted were made, and resolutions were passed for the election of a legislatorial attorney, who would claim admission to the House as a representative of Birmingham. The defendants were convicted upon an indictment alleging a conspiracy to excite discontent and disaffection, and, in particular, to procure the election of a representative in Parliament without lawful authority. 82 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 18 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. The Master was ordered to inquire to what persons, other than L.W., the custody of his infant children should be committed. It was also ordered that L.W. should be restrained from removing them. In pursuance of this order the children were placed under the care of M.L. One of the children was removed by L.W. beyond the jurisdiction of the Court. By an order of 16th July 1831 the Lord Chancellor committed L.W. to the Fleet Prison. 14 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. An interesting account of the most famous political meeting in English history. 16 pages printed in double columns, plus 1 folding plan. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. In August 1848, John Martin, registered proprietor and publisher of the Irish Felon newspaper, with indicted for feloniously compassing to depose the Queen and to levy war against her in order to force her to change measures, and expressing, uttering, declaring such compassing is by publishing certain articles, two of them bearing his own signature, with three numbers of the Irish Felon. Verdict: guilty. 88 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. In May 1843 a Special Commission issued for the trial of Giuseppe Azzopardi, a British subject, for the murder of a Dutch woman at Smyrna. The prisoner having been tried and convicted, reserved the case for the opinion of the judges. 6 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. Special Commission at Salisbury. 4 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 196 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 4 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 19 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. The plaintiff, a British subject, was in 1815 a merchant in Florida, then belonging to Spain, and was the owner of about 100 negro slaves. The defendant, Sir A. Cochrane, was the commander in chief of his Majesty's fleet on the North American station, and Sir G. Cochrane was the second in command. On the 24th February 1815, 38 of the plaintiff's slaves, escaping from his plantation, went on board one of his Majesty's vessels lying not in Spanish waters. The plaintiff asked the defendant G. to deliver up the slaves. G.C. told him that he might see them, and endeavour to persuade them to return. They refused, and the defendant G.C. to convey the slaves to the British colony of Bermuda, whither they were taken. Action of trover. Verdict for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the Court on a special case. 12 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. The King of the Two Sicilies filed a bill in Chancery, alleging that during a rebellion in Sicily the revolutionary government seized upon his treasure, and remitted part of it to agents in this country for the purchase of steamships; that a steamship was purchased accordingly from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company, and registered in the names of British subjects who were alleged to be trustees for the agents of the revolutionary government. The prayed that the vessel, which was still in the port of London, should be delivered up to the plaintiff, whose authority had been restored, and for an injunction. 11 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1896, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. O'Brien was arrested in 1840 and charged with making a seditious speech in Manchester. Convicted of sedition, he served eighteen months in Lancaster Prison. Upon release he disagreed with Feargus O'Connor regarding Physical Force Chartism and parliamentary elections. O'Brien wanted to have Chartist candidates whilst O'Connor preferred to attempt to pressure the Whig government by encouraging votes for Tory candidates. 14 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1892, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; Chartism; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 15 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. In 1827 George IV conferred upon Lord Dunglas for life the office of chamberlain and collector of the rents, revenues, &c., of the lands and lordship of Ettrick Forrest, at a salary exceeding the annual value of such rents and revenues, and charged the deficiency on another part of the hereditary renues of the Crown of Scotland. 15 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1892, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. On the 9th of June, 1821 a Royal Proclamation declaring the King?s pleasure to celebrate his coronation on the 19th July next was published. on the 25th June, 1821, the Queen presented a memorial claiming, as Queen Consort, a right to celebrate the ceremony of coronation at the same time as the King. The question, whether she was of right to be crowned with the King, was referred to a Committee of Lords of the Privy Council. The committee reported that a Queen Consort is not entitled as of right to be crowned. 42 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable rebinding that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: State Trials; State Trials::New Series; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.