Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

19th February 1777

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Just published,

The TRIAL (at large) of JAMES HILL < no role > alias JOHN THE PAINTER for setting Fire to the Rope House in Portsmouth Dock, taken in Short-hand by JOSEPH GURNEY < no role > , and published by Permission of the Judges.

Together with the voluntary Confession he made the Day after his Trial before Two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace; also an Account of his Behaviour at the Place of Execution, furnished by Mr. Commissioner Gambier.

Printed for G. Kearsly, near Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-street.

By whom in a few Days will be published,

The TRIAL (at large) of JOSEPH STACPOOLE < no role > , Esq; for wilfully and maliciously shooting at John Parker < no role > , Esq; tried at the last Assize at Maidstone, before the Honourable Mr. Justice Aston, taken in Short-hand by Mr. Gurney.

*** A new and considerably improved Edition of GURNEY's SYSTEM of SHORT-HAND, is in the Press, and will speedily be published.




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