"At a Supream Court of judicature held for the province of New-York, at the City hall of the City of New-York, on Wednesday, the 16th day of April, 1735"--Page 10.
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Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 467 as assigned by Yeates.
At top of first page: Presented to the Lancaster Law Library by Samuel Evans of Columbia, Pa, Feb 28th, 1873.
A faithful report of the trial of the proprietors of the Northern Star : at the Bar of the Court of King's-Bench, on the twenty-eighth of May, 1794,on information an information, filed ex-officio, by the Attorney General : for the insertion of a publication of the Irish Jacobeans of Belfast, on the fifteenth of December, 1792
Samuel Neilson was the editor and chief shareholder of the 'Northern Star' ; John Rabb was its printer and publisher.
Signatures: A-G4 H1 (A1 verso, A4 verso blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 601 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten contents on cover title page.
Bound with The trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq; and Timothy Brecknock...the murder of Pat. Ran. McDonnell and Charles Hipson...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1786 - An account of the argument of counsel and director of the court on a plea of auterfois acquit..for procuring, stirring, and provoking Andrew Creagh, otherwise Craig , and others to slee and murder Patrick Randal M'Connnel...Dublin: P,. Byrne1786 - The trial of John Magee for....libel against Richard Daly...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1790 - Ten thousand pounds damages...a report on the trial ...brought by the Reverand Charles Massy against...the Marquis of Headfort for criminal conversation with plaintiff's wife...Philadelphia: P. Byrne, 1804 - Trial of Fracis Bellew, esq...for appearing in arms with a mob of defenders...Dublin: P. Byrne, 1794.
Report of the trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., on an information filed, ex officio, by the attorney general, for the distribution of a libel : with the subsequent proceedings thereon : containing the arguments of counsel, the opinion of the court, and Mr. Rowan's address to the court, at full
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
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.
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
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.
