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A select collection of remarkable trials : in one volume. Viz. of The Duke of Norfolk, and the Lady Mary Mordaunt, for a divorce. ... Christopher Layer, Esq. ; for high treason

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21666
Date of Publication
1744.
Call Number
Book 496 1744
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Alternate Title
Select trials
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Henry Anderson,
Date of Publication
1744.
Physical Description
524 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
A re-issue, with a cancel titlepage, of volume 8 of 'State trials and proceedings upon high treason'.
The imprint is probably false.
Originally published as 'A compleat collection of state-tryals'.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 596 as assigned by Yeates.
Summary
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion.
Subjects
Trials - Great Britain.
Trials (Divorce) - Great Britain.
Trials (Treason) - Great Britain.
Trials (Perjury) - Great Britain.
Trials (Piracy) - Great Britain.
Trials (Murder) - Great Britain.
Trials.
Trials (Divorce)
Trials (Murder)
Trials (Perjury)
Trials (Piracy)
Trials (Treason)
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Guilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 496 1744
Websites
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Proceedings on the impeachment of William Blount : a senator of the United States from the state of Tennessee, for high crimes and misdemeanors

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Author
Blount, William,
Date of Publication
1799.
Call Number
Book 598 1799
Author
Blount, William,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Joseph Gales,
Date of Publication
1799.
Physical Description
102, [2] p. (final leaf blank) ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Blount was charged with conspiring to aid Great Britain in wresting the Floridas and Louisiana from Spain.
Record of the proceedings is found in Journal of the Senate of the United States, in cases of impeachments ... Washington City : Printed by William Duane & Son, 1805: p. [3]-31. This journal forms part of Journal of the Senate ... Second Session of the Eighth Congress ... Washington City : Printed by William Duane & Son, 1804.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-N⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 598 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Sabin
Howes
Subjects
Blount, William, - 1749-1800.
Diplomatic relations.
United States - Foreign relations - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
United States - Foreign relations - 1797-1801 - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain.
United States.
Early works.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine title (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 598 1799
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A faithful report of the trial of the cause of Philip I. Arcularius and William Coleman ... being an action for a libel held ... before his Hon. Judge Livingston on the third of January, 1807

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Author
Arcularius, Philip I.
Date of Publication
1807.
Call Number
Book 600 1807a
Responsibility
Taken by Mr. Sampson in short-hand ...
Author
Arcularius, Philip I.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
B. Dornin,
Date of Publication
1807.
Physical Description
62 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 600 as assigned by Yeates.
Hand-written contents on flyleaf.
Bound with The speeches at full length of Mr. Van Ness, Mr. Caines...and General Hamilton...against Harry Croswell...New York, G & R. Waite, 1804; Trial of Thomas O. Selfridge...for killing Charles Austin...Boston: Russell and Cutler, 1807? - The trrial of the boot & shoemakers of Philadelphia...Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806.- A correct statement of the whole preliminary controversy between Tho. O. Selfridge and Benj. Austin...Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, 1807.
Shaw
Subjects
Arcularius, Philip I. - Trials, litigation, etc.
Coleman, William, - 1766-1829 - Trials, litigation, etc.
Coleman, William, - 1766-1829.
Trials (Libel) - Great Britain.
Trials (Libel)
Great Britain.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Coleman, William,
Sampson, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
New York (State). Supreme Court.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 600 1807a
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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 : tried by a special jury in the court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792, before the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21686
Author
Paine, Thomas,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Call Number
Book 606 1793
Responsibility
taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.
Author
Paine, Thomas,
Uniform Title
Trial of Thomas Paine
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Sold by Martha Gurney, no. 128, Holborn-Hill,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description
196, [4] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Below imprint in parentheses: Price three shillings and sixpence; belox price in square brackets: entered at Stationers' Hall.
Signatures: B-G⁸ H⁴ I-K⁸ L⁴ M² N⁸ O⁴ Q⁸ R⁴ chi².
Pages [1]-[4] at end: publisher's advertisements ("The following trials are published from Mr. Gurney's short-hand notes").
Erratum on page 196.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time,
Summary
First edition of this work on the proceedings directed against the second part of Rights of man. The speeches of the attorney-general (Sir Archibald Macdonald) and of Mr. Erskine, counsel for the defendant, are given in full.
Subjects
Paine, Thomas, - 1737-1809 - Trials, litigation, etc.
Paine, Thomas, - 1737-1809.
Trials (Seditious libel) - England - London.
Freedom of the press - Great Britain.
Seditious libel - Great Britain.
Freedom of the press.
Seditious libel.
Trials (Seditious libel)
England - London.
Great Britain.
Publishers' advertisements - England - 18th century.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Macdonald, Archibald,
Erskine, Thomas Erskine,
Gurney, Joseph,
Gurney,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 606 1793
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The Trial of Mr. Thomas Hardy, for high treason ; containing the whole proceedings, from the opening of the special commission, the judge's charge to the grand jury, lists of the witnesses, jurors, and the bills of indictment ... together with the arguments of counsel on the part of the Crown, and in defence of the prisoner

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21689
Author
Hardy, Thomas,
Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Book 607 1794
Responsibility
Accurately taken in short-hand, by Manoah Sibly ...
Author
Hardy, Thomas,
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by P. Byrne ...,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
[9]-286 pages ; octavo
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 607 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Treason - Great Britain.
Politics and government
Treason.
Great Britain - Politics and government - 1789-1840.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Sibly, Manoah,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 607 1794
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The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the King's Attorney General against John Stockdale, for a libel on the House of Commons : tried in the Court of King's-Bench Westminister, on Wednesday, the ninth of December 1789 : before the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon, Chief Justice of England

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Author
Stockdale, John,
Date of Publication
1790.
Call Number
Book 608 1790
Responsibility
taken in short hand by Joseph Gurney ; to which is subjoined, an Argument in support of the rights of juries.
Author
Stockdale, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Stockdale ...,
Date of Publication
1790.
Physical Description
xi, [1], 228, [16] p. ; 24 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A⁶ B-P⁸ Q².
"Argument in support of the rights of juries" by the Hon. T. Erskine: p. [121]-228.
Publisher's advertisements: [16] p. at end.
LC copy wanting the [16] p. of advertisements called for in ESTC.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 608 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHS copy has bound between pages121 and 122: The whole of the proceedings at the assizes at Shrewsbury, on Friday, August the Sixth, 1784...London: H. Goldney, 1874.
With: Briton. Four letters on the subject of Mr. Stockdale's trial for a supposed libel on the House of Commons ... London : Printed for John Stockdale ..., 1790. Bound together subsequent to publication?
ESTC (RLIN)
Subjects
Stockdale, John, - 1749?-1814
Logan, John, - 1748-1788.
Logan, John, - 1748-1786.
Hastings, Warren, - 1732-1818.
Stockdale, John, - 1749?-1814.
Trials (Libel) - Great Britain.
Jury - Great Britain.
Jury.
Trials (Libel)
Great Britain.
Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain - 18th century.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Gurney, Joseph,
Erskine, Thomas Erskine,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 608 1790
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The whole of the proceedings at the assizes at Shrewsbury on Friday August the sixth, 1784 : in the cause of the King on the prosecution of William Jones, attorney at law, against the Rev. William Davies Shipley, dean of St. Asaph : for a libel : before the Hon. Francis Buller, esq

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Author
Shipley, William Davies,
Date of Publication
1784.
Call Number
Book 608 1784
Responsibility
taken in short hand by William Blanchard.
Author
Shipley, William Davies,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by H. Goldney, and sold by J. Johnson,
Date of Publication
1784.
Physical Description
1 page ;., 112 pages ; 20 cm.
Series
Grey tracts ; 14
Notes
Contains copious extracts from "Principles of government, in a dialogue between a gentleman and a farmer" by Sir William Jones, the "seditious libel" which the Dean of St. Asaph was accused of publishing.
LCHS copy is bound between pages 120 and 121 of The whole proceedings on the trial ...against Johbn Stockdale...London: John Stockdale, 1790.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 608 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Shipley, William Davies, - 1745-1826 - Trials, litigation, etc.
Shipley, William Davies, - 1745-1826.
Trials (Seditious libel) - England.
Trials (Seditious libel)
England.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Jones, William,
Blanchard, William Isaac,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Assizes (Shropshire, England)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 608 1784
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An enquiry into the use and practice of juries among the Greeks and Romans : from whence the origin of the English jury may probably be deduced : in three parts

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21700
Author
Pettingal, John,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Call Number
Book 619 1769
Responsibility
by John Pettingal ...
Author
Pettingal, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author, by W. and W. Strahan, and sold by T. Cadell (successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description
xv, [1], 200 p. ; 28 cm. (4to)
Notes
Signatures: a-b⁴ B-2C⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 619 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
ESTC
Subjects
Jury (Roman law)
Jury - Greece.
Jury - Great Britain.
Jury.
Great Britain.
Greece.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 619 1769
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An historical and political discourse of the laws and government of England : from the first times to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : with a vindication of the antient way of parliaments in England

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Author
Bacon, Nathaniel,
Edition
The fifth edition /
Date of Publication
MDCCLX [1760]
Call Number
Book 620 1760
Responsibility
collected from some manuscript notes of John Selden, Esq. by Nathaniel Bacon ...
Author
Bacon, Nathaniel,
Uniform Title
Historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England
Edition
The fifth edition /
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for D. Browne, and A. Millar ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLX [1760]
Physical Description
[4], viii, xiii-xix, [1], 203, [1], xii,178 [i.e. 180], [8] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Notes
In 2 pts.
Signatures: pi1 A1 a-b⁴ B-2C⁴ 2D2E⁴ 2F-3F⁴ 3G².
Errors in paging: p. 167-168 of pt. 2 repeated in the numbering.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 620 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Constitutional history - Great Britain.
Constitutional history.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Selden, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 620 1760
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An historical view of the English government : from the settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the accession, of the House of Stewart

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21702
Author
Millar, John,
Edition
The 2nd ed.
Date of Publication
1790.
Call Number
Book 621 1790
  1 website  
Responsibility
by John Millar, Esq. ...
Author
Millar, John,
Edition
The 2nd ed.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A Strahan, and T. Cadell ... and J. Murray ...,
Date of Publication
1790.
Physical Description
vii, [9], 565, [19] pages ; 28 cm (4to)
Notes
Error in paging: 237 numbered 372.
Index: p. [2]-[18] at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 621 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Constitutional history - Great Britain.
Constitutional history.
Politics and government
Great Britain - Politics and government.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 621 1790
Websites
Less detail

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