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412. The trial of Humphry Finnimore, Esq. (reputed to be worth forty thousand pounds), who was tried at the quarter session holden for the county of Surrey in the Town-Hall, Southwark, on Thursday the 14th day of January 1779 and convicted of felony in stealing of five turkies, the property of Thomas Humphries.

Creator:
Finnimore, Humphry, 18th cent.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed for B. White, in Fleet-Street; and J. Seweli, Cornhill
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

421. The trial at large, of Joseph Wall, esq. : late governor of Goree Island, on the coast of Africa, for the wilful murder, of Benjamin Armstrong, in July, 1782, by causing him to be tied to a gun-carriage, and flogged with a piece of rope, on his bare back, by Black Men: Who was tried, and found Guilty, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, on the 20th of January, 1802.

Creator:
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Published by John Fairburn, 146, Minories; Printed by C. and W. Galabin, Ingram-Court
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

423. The trial of Governor Wall : executed at the Old Bailey, Jan. 28th, 1802, for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong, in the Garrison at Goree, upon the coast of Africa, July, 1782; with the extraordinary particulars of his escape at Reading, after being captured under a warrant from the Privy Council in 1784, and his subsequent surrented in 1802, having lived twenty years in exile.

Creator:
Wall, Joseph, 1737-1802.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Published by Frederick Farrah, 282, Strand.
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

429. Trial of Henry Rogers, the captain, William Miles, first mate, and Charles E. Seymour, second mate, of the ship ""Martha and Jane,"" of Sunderland, for the wilful murder on the high seas, of Andrew Rose, a seaman, tried at the Liverpool summer assizes, before Mr. Baron Watson, on the 19th August, 1857, with the particulars of the execution of the captain, the fate of the two mates being yet undecided. The evidence given verbatim from the report made for Her Majesty's government. By Bond Hughes, esq.

Creator:
Rogers, Henry, d. 1857.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
London, Lewis and son
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

434. An account of the arguments of counsel, and the directions of the court, on a plea of auterfois acquit : pleaded by James Foy at the Summer Assizes 1786, holden for the county of Mayo at Ballinrobe, on the fifth day of June : to an indictment for procuring, stirring, and provoking Andrew Creagh, otherwise Craig and others, to slee and murder Patrick Randal M'Donnell, Esquire and Charles Hipson, with the pleadings in that case

Creator:
Foy, James.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed by P. Byrne
Publication Place:
Dublin
Format:
Book

446. Report of the trial of Humphrey Boyle, indicted at the instance of the Constitutional Association, as a man with name unknown : for pubtishing [sic] an alleged blasphemous and seditious libel, as one of the shopmen of Mr. Carlile; which took place before Mr. Common Sergeant Denman, and a common jury, at the Old Bailey Sessions House, on the 27th of May, 1822. With a narrative of the proceedings against the defendant before trial. To which is attached, the trial of Joseph Rhodes, under the name of Wm. Holmes, as forced upon him, for publishing a copy of the same pamphlet

Creator:
Unknown Author
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed by R. Carlile and published at the Koran Society's Office
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

466. The trials of the twelve traitors W. Cundell, C. Parker, J. Tweedle, Charles Bird, John Quigley, John Smith, G. Armstrong, S. M'Farlane, J. Teaster, James Fibbs, Philip Lethay, Noah Francis for high treason : charged with being found in arms, in French uniform, fighting against their king and country, in the Isle of France, and other traiterous acts, before a Special Commission, at the Sessions House, Newington, Monday, Feb. 10, and following days : including the interesting charge to the grand jury, the speeches of the counsellors, and the affecting address of the Lord Chief Baron in passing the awful sentences

Creator:
Unknown Author
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Kemmish and Sgn [sic], 17, King Street, Borough : Stevens and Co., Borough Road
Publication Place:
[Southwark (London, England)]
Format:
Book

474. Trial, sentence, and execution of Israel Thayer, Jr. Isaac Thayer, and Nelson Thayer, three brothers, : for the murder of John Love, at the town of Boston, in the county of Erie, and state of New-York, on the 17th June. : With all the particulars, arguments of counsel, charge of the judge, the sentence, their execution, and their conduct on the awful occasion. / Collected from authentic documents.

Creator:
Unknown Author
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed and published by J. M'Cleland, 285 Water-Street
Publication Place:
New York
Format:
Book

476. An authentic account of the proceedings under a writ of enquiry of damages in an action in the court of King's Bench, in which the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin was plaintiff, and William [i.e. Robert] Ferguson, Esq. defendant, for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife : executed before the sheriff of Middlesex and a special jury on the 22d of December, 1807 ...

Creator:
Elgin, Thomas Bruce, Earl of, 1766-1841.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
J. Hatchard
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

478. Neutral rights, or, An impartial examination of the right of search of neutral vessels under convoy: and of a judgment pronounced by the English court of admiralty, the 11th June, 1799, in the case of the Swedish convoy : with some additions and corrections / by Mr. J.F.W. Schlegel ; translated from the French.

Creator:
Schlegel, J. F. W. (Johan Friderich Wilhelm), 1765-1836.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed at the Aurora office
Publication Place:
Philadelphia
Format:
Book

488. Speech of General Butler, against further delays in the trial of impeachment in the Senate sitting on the trial of Andrew Johnson, president of the United States, Thursday, April 16, 1868 which was denominated by Mr. Evarts, one of the President’s counsel, a "harangue"; together with the tables of the sales of gold and purchase of seven-thirty notes, which were referred to but not read.

Creator:
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed at the Congressional Globe Office
Publication Place:
Washington
Format:
Book

498. The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the king's attorney-general against Thomas Paine for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the crown and regal government as by law established; and also upon the Bill of Rights, the Legislature, Government, Laws, and Parliament of this Kingdom, and upon the King.

Creator:
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, defendant.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Sold by Martha Gurney, No. 128, Holborn-Hill.
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

499. The proceedings and tryal in the case of the Most Reverend Father in God William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Right Reverend Fathers in God, William Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, John Lord Bishop of Chichester, Thomas Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Thomas Lord Bishop of Peterborough, and Jonathan Lord Bishop of Bristol.

Creator:
Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleet Street, and Thomas Fox, at the Angel in Westminster-Hall.
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book