High crimes (155 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 7 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 unassum…

Condición: 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…

Condición: Card Covers. 12 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 unas…

Condición: 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 f…

Condición: Very Good. William Cobbett published on the 11th of December 1830, in the Weekly Register with reference to fires and destruction of threshing machines in Hampshire and Wiltshire an article. Indictment for publishing a seditious libel alleging an intent to create discontent, and to incite violence. 58 pages, printed i…

Condición: 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 ce…

Condición: 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 unass…

Condición: 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 candidat…

Condición: 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…

Condición: Very Good. The defendants in error sued the plaintiff in error for money had and received to their use. 19 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 Stat…

Condición: Card Covers. 12 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 unas…

Condición: 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 unassu…

Condición: Very Good. Writs of Habeas Corpus were issued by a judge in vacation for bringing up Leonard Watson and others, prisoners in the gaol of Liverpool. The keeper of the gaol brought up the prisoners, and returned in the case of each prisoner that by a statute of Upper Canada the Lt.Governor in council was empowered to gr…

Condición: Very Good. Action by the coroner of the honour of Pontefract claiming under the charter against a coroner in the County of York, exercising the office of coroner within the honour, and taking the profits and emoluments thereof. 10 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials,…

Condición: Very Good. Action of trespass against the commander of a British ship of war for seizing slaves and goods belonging to the plaintiff, foreigner, at Gallinas, on the West Coast of Africa. Evidence was given that the defendant proceeded to Gallinas at the request of the Governor of Sierra Leone, to affect the release of…

Condición: Very Good. The defendant sold a pamphlet in which the morality of the Old testament and New Testament was contrasted, and in which it was alleged that the former was full of contradictions and wickedness. She was indicted for publishing a blasphemous libel. Verdict, guilty. 10 pages, printed in double columns. A trial…

Condición: Very Good. The defendant published in a newspaper an article reflecting on the conduct of the clergy of Durham in omitting to cause the church bells to be tolled on the occasion of the death of Queen Caroline. The article imputed brutal enmity, hypocrisy, conduct rendering odious till it stinks in the nostrils the nam…

Condición: Very Good. On the night of April 1, 1820, an address to the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland was posted up in Glasgow and the neighbourhood. It urged the necessity of taking up arms, called upon the soldiers to free their country, requested all persons to desist from labour, and recommended proprietors of work…

Condición: Very Good. On June 10, 1840, the Queen, whilst driving up Constitution Hill, was twice fired at by Edward Oxford, aged eighteen. Oxford was indicted for high treason. Verdict, Not guilty, he being at the time insane. The first of seven attempts on Queen Victoria's life. She was reportedly infuriated at the insanity ve…

Condición: Very Good. In April 1854, during the war between the Allies and Russia, Vice Admiral Sir C.Napier, as commander-in-chief of her majesties naval forces in the Baltic, establish an effective de facto blockade of the Gulf of Riga. It had not been diplomatically notified by the Allies to neutral governments. The belligere…

Condición: Very Good. Duke of Leeds faced impeachment for alleged corruption in public office. 6 pages, printed in double columns. Printed between 1809 and 1826, these historic documents are vivid extracts from Cobbett's State Trials; pages from the courtroom record that preserve the voices, arguments, and verdicts which helped…

Condición: 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…

Condición: 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 se…

Condición: Very Good. Indictment charging Simon Bernard, a French refugee, with being accessory before the fact to the murder at Paris, out of the Queen's dominions, of Nicolas Batty, one of the Gardes de Paris, killed in the Orsini plot to assassinate the Emperor Napoleon the third, outside the Paris Opera house on January 14,…

Condición: Card Covers. Indictment for unlawful assembly and riot. Evidence was given that Williams and Vernon took part in organising the meeting at Clerkenwell Green on May 29, 1848, and the night procession through the streets, which was dispersed by the police, and that Williams and Vernon addressed procession from a coffeeh…

Condición: 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 unassu…

Condición: Card Covers. In July 1848 Fussell was indicted for making a seditious speech at a Chartist meeting at Clerkenwell Green, May 29, 1848, and for unlawful assembly and riot. Evidence was given that he denounced the conviction of John Mitchell, and said if Mitchell were sent out of the country, every Irishman must rise to…

Condición: Card Covers. On an indictment for shooting with intent, a felony punishable with transportation, the prisoner challenged two of the jurors pre-emptorily. The court having overruled the challenges, the prisoner was convicted and sentenced, but the judgement was afterwards reversed by the House of Lords on writ of error…

Condición: 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 unassu…