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

5th June 1782

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*** The remarkable Trial of GEORGE and JOSEPH WESTON < no role > , for Robbing the Mail, will be printed in the Second Number of the Sessions Paper, which will be published in a few days, price Sixpence.

This Day is published, A NEW EDITION, Dedicated (with Permission) to the KING, OF BRACHYGRAPHY, OR An easy and compendious SYSTEM of SHORT-HAND: ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS SCIENCES AND PROFESSIONS.

By JOSEPH GURNEY < no role > .

*** This Book is a sufficient Instructor of itself; but if any Difficulties occur to the Purchaser, they shall be removed upon Application to the Author, without any additional Expence.

The following TRIALS are published from Mr. GURNEY's Short-Hand Notes.

1. THE Proceedings (at large) in a Cause on an Action brought by Anthony Fabrigas < no role > against General Mostyn, Governor of Minorca, for false Imprisonment of the Plaintiff, and banishing him from Minorca to Carthagena. Tried in the Court of Common-Pleas, London, July 13, 1773, before Mr. Justice Gould. To which are added, the Arguments on the Motion for a new Trial, and on the Bill of Exceptions. Price 5 s. 6 d.

2. The Trial of Jane Butterfield < no role > , for the Murder of William Scawen < no role > , Esq; at the Assize at Croydon, Aug. 19, 1775, before Lord Chief Baron Smythe < no role > . 2 s. 6 d.

3. The Trial of Elizabeth, Dutchess Dowager of Kingston, for Bigamy; before the Right Honourable the House of PEERS, in Westminster-hall, in full Parliament assembled, on the 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th, and 22d, days of April, 1776. Printed under an Order of the House of Lords. 10 s.

4. The Trial of the Cause on an Action brought by Stephen Sayre < no role > , Esq; against the Earl of Rochford, for false Imprisonment; before Lord Chief Justice De Grey, in the Court of Common-Pleas, Westminster, June 27, 1776. 1 s. 6 d.

5. The Trial of John Hill, alias John < no role > the Painter, for setting Fire to the King's Rope-house at Portsmouth; before Mr Baron Hotham < no role > , at the Assize at Winchester, March 6, 1777. 2 s.

6. The Trial of Joseph Stacpoole < no role > , Esq; for wilfully and maliciously shooting off a loaded Pistol at John Parker < no role > , Esq; at the Assize at Maidstone, before Mr. Justice Aston, March 20, 1777. 2 s. 6 d.

7. The Trial of John Horne < no role > , Esq; upon an Information filed ex officio by his Majesty's Attorney-General, for a Libel; before the Earl of Mansfield, at Guildhall, July 7, 1777. 3 s. - A Supplement to the Trial, containing the subsequent Proceedings in the Court of King's-Bench. 1 s.

8. The Trial of the Rev. Henry Bate < no role > , Clerk, upon an Information exhibited against him by the Duke of Richmond, for a Libel; before Mr. Justice Buller, in the Court of King's-Bench, Westminster, June 22, 1780. 2 s. 6 d. - A Supplement to the Trial, containing the subsequent Proceedings in the Court of King's-Bench. 6 d.

9. The Trial of Lord George Gordon < no role > , for High Treason, at the Bar of the Court of King's-Bench, February 5, 1781. Part I. < no role > 1 s. 6 d. Part II. 2 s.

10. The Trial of John Donellan < no role > , Esq; for the Murder of Sir Theodosius Boughton, Bart. before Mr. Justice Buller, at the Assize at Warwick, March 30, 1781. 2 s. 6 d.

N. B. All the foregoing Publications are printed in Folio, to bind with the State Trials.

11. An Account of the Arguments of Counsel, with the Opinions at large of Mr. Justice Gould, Mr. Justice Ashhurst, and Mr. Baron Hotham < no role > , on the Case of Margaret Caroline Rudd < no role > , on September 16, 1775. 1 s. 6 d.

12. The Trials on the Informations which, in pursuance of an Order of the House of Commons, were filed by his Majesty's Attorney-General against Richard Smith < no role > , Esq; and Thomas Brand Hollis < no role > , Esq; for Bribing the Voters of the Borough of Hindon; before Mr. Baron Hotham < no role > , at the Assize at Salisbury, March 12, 1776. 1 s. 6 d.

13. The Trials of the Rioters, under a Special Commission, in the Hall at St. Margaret's Hill; before Lord Loughborough, Mr. Justice Gould, Mr. Baron Eyre < no role > , and Mr. Justice Buller, in July, 1780. Printed in Eight Parts. Price 6 d. each.

Note. The three last Publications are printed in Quarto, of a fit size to bind with the Sessions-Papers.

Such of the above Trials as are not out of Print, may be had of M. Gurney, Bookseller, in HOLBORN, the corner of LEATHER-LANE.




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