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401. The life, trial, confession and execution of Albert W. Hicks, the pirate and murderer : executed on Bedloe's Island, New York bay, on the 13th of July, 1860, for the murder of Capt. Burr, Smith and Oliver Watts, on board the oyster sloop E.A. Johnson : containing the history of his life (written by himself) from childhood up to the time of his arrest : with a full account of his piracies, murders, mutinies, high-way robberies, etc., comprising the particulars of one hundred murders! : to which is added the account of his arrest, imprisonment, trial and execution ; also, his phrenological character, as described by L.N. Fowler.

Creator:
Hicks, Albert W., 1820?-1860.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Robert M. De Witt, publisher, 13 Frankfort Street
Publication Place:
New York
Format:
Book

416. 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

422. The protest and appeal of George Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey : as aggrieved, by William Meade, George Burgess, and Charles Pettit McIlvaine : and his reply to the false, calumnious, and malignant representations of William Halsted, Caleb Perkins, Peter V. Coppuck, and Bennington Gill : on which they ground their uncanonical, unchristian and inhuman procedure, in regard to him

Creator:
Doane, George Washington, 1799-1859.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
King & Baird
Publication Place:
Philadelphia, Pa.
Format:
Book

426. The resolutions of the House of Commons, for the impeachment of Sir William Scroggs, Knt., chief justice of the Court of King's Bench; Sir Thomas Jones, Knight, one of the justices of the same court; Sir Richard Weston, Knight, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer.

Creator:
Scroggs, William, Sir; Jones, Thomas, Sir; Weston, Richard, Sir
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed for John Wright, at the Crown on Ludgate-Hill, and Richard Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard.
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

429. The sequestration cases : before the Hon. A.G. Magrath : report of cases under the Sequestration Act of the Confederate States, heard in the District Court for the state of South Carolina, in the city of Charleston--October term, 1861 : arguments of Wm. Whaley, Nelson Mitchell, C. Richardson Miles, J.L. Petigru, I.W. Hayne, J.W. Wilkinson, and Ed. McCrady, esqrs. ; to which is added the opinion of Judge Magrath, in the several cases ; and the Sequestration Act of the Confederate States ; also, the Confiscation Act of the United States ; reported by J. Woodruff.

Creator:
Unknown Author
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Published by Request
Publication Place:
[Charleston?]
Format:
Book

442. The trial at large on an action for damages, brought in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer before the Right Hon. Lord Chief Baron Yelverton and a jury of citizens, on Saturday the 20th of February, 1796, by the Right Hon. George Fred. Earl of Westmeath, against the Honourable Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw, for adultery with the Right Hon. Mary Anne, Countess of Westmeath.

Creator:
Westmeath, George Frederick Nugent, 7th earl of, 1760-1814.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Re-Printed for Allen and West.
Publication Place:
Dublin
Format:
Book

445. 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

446. The trial for murder of James E. Eldredge : convicted of poisoning Sarah Jane Gould, embracing the speeches of counsel for the prosecution and defence, the evidence, the charge of the judge, and sentence of the prisoner, carefully compiled from original notes of the district attorney, and the presiding judge : special term of St. Lawrence county Oyer and terminer, held at Canton, N.Y., December, 1857.

Creator:
Eldredge, James E., defendant.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Hitchcock, Tillotson & Stilwell's Steam Presses
Publication Place:
Ogdensburgh, N.Y.
Format:
Book

453. 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

454. 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

474. The trial of Thomas Hunter, Peter Hacket, Richard M'Niel [sic], James Gibb, and William M'Lean, the Glasgow cotton-spinners : before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on charges of murder, hiring to commit assassinations, and committing, and hiring to commit, violence to persons and property / reported by James Marshall ... ; to which is annexed statistics connected with the spinning trade, &c. of Glasgow, by Peter M'Kenzie.

Creator:
Hunter, Thomas, b. 1796?
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Published by William Tait; Peter M'Kenzie; W.R. Mphun; Effingham Wilson; N.H. Cotes
Publication Place:
Edinburgh; Glasgow; London
Format:
Book

475. The trial of Thomas Muir, Esq., younger of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary, upon Friday and Saturday the 30th and 31st days of August 1793, on a charge of sedition / the whole accurately taken down in shorthand ; with an elegant portrait of Mr. Muir ; to which is annexed an appendix, containing all the papers referred to in the course of the trial

Creator:
Muir, Thomas, 1765-1798.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Alexander Scott
Publication Place:
Edinburgh
Format:
Book

481. The trial, conviction, & sentence of Jesse Strang, for the murder of John Whipple at Albany on the 7th of May 1827 : containing all the evidence as given on the very interesting trial, with the trial & acquittal of Mrs. Whipple, as an accomplice to the murder of her husband : together with a brief sketch of the history of Jesse Strang, and also, the history of Mrs. Whipple.

Creator:
Strang, Jesse, 1797-1827.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Published by E.M. Murden
Publication Place:
New York
Format:
Book

482. The trials at large of Robert Watt, and David Downie, for high treason, : at the session of Oyer and Terminer, at Edinburgh, August 27, September 3d, and September 5th, 1794. At which they were both found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, on the 15th of October. Taken in short hand by an English barrister.

Creator:
Watt, Robert, d. 1794?
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed by Tiebout & O'Brien, 358 Pearl-Street.
Publication Place:
New York
Format:
Book

483. The trials of Arthur Thistlewood, : J. Ings, J.T. Brunt, W. Davidson, and R. Tidd, on a charge of high treason in attempting to depose the King and assassinate his ministers. Including the whole of the evidence, speeches of counsel, prisoners' defence, &c. Tried at the Sessions House, Old Bailey, before Lord Chief Justice Abbott, Lord Chief Justice Dallas, the chief Baron Richards, and Mr. Justice Richardson, April 17, 1820, and following days. Taken in short hand. To which is added, a copious account of the execution.

Creator:
Thistlewood, Arthur, 1770-1820.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
published by John Fairburn, 2, Broadway, Ludgate Hill; T.Dolby, 299, Strand, (near the New Church) and 34, Wardour Street; sold also by Batchelor Long Alley, Moorfields, and all other Booksellers and Newsmen in town and country. Price two shillings. Printed by W. Molineux, Bream Buildings, Chancery Lane
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

487. 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

490. The tryals and condemnation of Lionel Anderson, alias Munson, William Russel, alias Napper, Charles Parris, alias Parry, Henry Starkey, James Corker, and William Marshal, for high treason, as Romish priests, upon the statute of 27. Eliz. cap. 2 : together with the tryal of Alexander Lumsden, a Scotchman, and the arraignment of David Joseph Kemish for the same offence : at the sessions of Oyer and Terminer in the Old-Baily, on Saturday, January 17th, 1679.

Creator:
Anderson, Lionel, d. 1710, defendant
Russel, William, defendant
Parris, Charles, defendant
Strakey, Henry, defendant
Lumsden, Alexander, defendant
Kemish, David Joseph, defendant
Marshall, William, defendant
Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715, defendant
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed for Thomas Collins and John Starkey Book-Sellers in Fleet-Street near Temple-Bar.
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

494. 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

495. The whole proceedings on the trial of indictment against Thomas Walker of Manchester : merchant, Samuel Jackson, James Cheetham, Oliver Pearsal [sic] Benjamin Booth, and Joseph Collier : for a conspiracy to overthrow the constitution and government, and to aid and assist the French, (being the King's Enemies) in case they should invade this Kingdom.

Creator:
Walker, Thomas, 1749-1817, defendant.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed for T. Boden, 1794.
Publication Place:
Manchester [England]
Format:
Book

496. The whole proceedings on the trial of indictment against Thomas Walker of Manchester : merchant, Samuel Jackson, James Cheetham, Oliver Pearsal [sic] Benjamin Booth, and Joseph Collier : for a conspiracy to overthrow the constitution and government, and to aid and assist the French, (being the King's Enemies) in case they should invade this Kingdom.

Creator:
Walker, Thomas, 1749-1817, defendant.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Printed for Samuel Harrison Smith, by W. Woodward.
Publication Place:
Philadelphia
Format:
Book

497. The whole proceedings on the trials of two informations ... against George Gordon, esq., commonly called Lord George Gordon: one for a libel on the Queen of France and the French Ambassador, the other for a libel on the judges, and the administration of the laws in England. Also of Thomas Wilkins, for printing the last-mentioned libel. Tried in the Court of King's Bench ... the 6th of June, 1787, before the Hon. Francis Buller, esq. ... Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.

Creator:
Gordon, George, Lord, 1751-1793, defendant.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Sold by M. Gurney
Publication Place:
London
Format:
Book

498. Three letters, written, and originally published, under the signature of A South Carolina planter. The first, on the case of Jonathan Robbins ... The second, on the recent captures of American vessels by British cruisers ... The third, on the right of expatriation. By Charles Pinckney, esquire, senator in Congress, for South-Carolina. To which is added, an appendix, containing sundry documents concerning Jonathan Robbins.

Creator:
Pinckney, Charles, 1758-1824.
Collection:
Trial Pamphlets Collection
Publisher:
Aurora-office
Publication Place:
Philadelphia
Format:
Book