A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 22Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817 - Trials |
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Page 175
... wicked , malicious , scanafter the octave of St. Hilary in this same dalous , and seditious libel ' hereinafter next term , and for our said lord the king giveth mentioned , divers persons had been and were the court here to understand ...
... wicked , malicious , scanafter the octave of St. Hilary in this same dalous , and seditious libel ' hereinafter next term , and for our said lord the king giveth mentioned , divers persons had been and were the court here to understand ...
Page 177
... wicked , malicious , scandalous , and seditious libel , intituled , " The Prisoners ' Petition to the Right Honourable Lord ' George Gordon , ' and which said libel is also further intituled , The Prisoners Petition to ' the Right ...
... wicked , malicious , scandalous , and seditious libel , intituled , " The Prisoners ' Petition to the Right Honourable Lord ' George Gordon , ' and which said libel is also further intituled , The Prisoners Petition to ' the Right ...
Page 179
... wicked , malicious , scandalous , and sefalse , wicked , malicious , scandalous , and ditious libel , intituled , " The Prisoners Petiseditious libel herein - after next mentioned , it • tion to the Right Honourable Lord George was ...
... wicked , malicious , scandalous , and sefalse , wicked , malicious , scandalous , and ditious libel , intituled , " The Prisoners Petiseditious libel herein - after next mentioned , it • tion to the Right Honourable Lord George was ...
Page 181
... wicked , malicious , scandalous , and seditious printed and published , and caused and pro - libel , intituled , The Prisoners Petition to cured to be printed and published , a certain the Right Honourable Lord George Gor- other false ...
... wicked , malicious , scandalous , and seditious printed and published , and caused and pro - libel , intituled , The Prisoners Petition to cured to be printed and published , a certain the Right Honourable Lord George Gor- other false ...
Page 193
... wicked , no knowledge and the intelligent as though the perverters of his judgments . - Except the void of understanding : for the greater part of Lord keep the kings , the governments , the their actions are emptiness , and the days of ...
... wicked , no knowledge and the intelligent as though the perverters of his judgments . - Except the void of understanding : for the greater part of Lord keep the kings , the governments , the their actions are emptiness , and the days of ...
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Page 465 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 437 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 359 - King there inhabiting and being, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 383 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 385 - That excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders.
Page 361 - An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown...
Page 383 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 437 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us ; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Page 385 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 407 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the Judge ; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favour the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very Judge to be his Counsel.