Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
19th February 1777
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.