A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, Volume 5

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Thomas Bayly Howell
T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Trials
 

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Page 813 - bored through with a hot iron : and that he be there also stigmatized in the forehead with the Letter В ; and that he be afterwards sent to Bristol, and be conveyed into and through the said city on horseback, bare-ridged, with his face backward, and there also publicly whipped the next
Page 845 - the world, I kept them in thy name ; those ' that thou gavest me I have kept,
Page 903 - the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of every man'« brother will I require the life of man.
Page 791 - •He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." Prov. xxix. 1.
Page 903 - brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed ; lor in the image of God made he
Page 509 - most of whom were prosecuted by information in the court of Queen's Bench, at the suit of the attorney general, and at their trial before the lord chief justice were convicted of the facts by the jury, reserving the question of law, how far those facts were criminal, to be
Page 13 - That no freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold or liberties, or free custom, or be outlawed or exiled, or
Page 509 - concerned in the arrest were examined before the privy council, (of which the lord chief justice Holt was at the same time sworn a member), and seventeen were committed to prison i most of whom were prosecuted by information in the court of Queen's Bench, at the suit of the attorney general,
Page 853 - he, that ere long all this will be accomplished ; for the triumphing of the wicked is but short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Though his Excellency
Page 21 - if by the laws and statutes of the land they had deserved death, by the same laws and statutes also they might, and by no other

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