Trials for High Treason, in Scotland: Under a Special Commission, Held at Stirling, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Paisley, and Ayr, in the Year 1820 ...Manners and Miller, 1825 |
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25th Edward act of compassing Address answer appear asked attention called Campbell's house Cartside Mill charge compassing and imagining compassing the King's compel conspiracy to levy conspiring to levy corduroy counsels count Court crime crowd Crown declaration duty evidence examination Gentlemen Grant.-I Green guilty Hagg Mill hear heard High Treason Houstoun Houstoun's mill imagining the death indictment intention James Speirs James Walker John Johnstone Judges Jury King's death law of Treason learned Friend levy war Lord Advocate Lord Chief Baron Lord Coke Lord Hale Lord Justice Clerk Lordship mean meeting Monday o'clock oath object observe Old Mill overt act Paisley paper Parker Parliament person preses prisoner proceedings Proclamation Provisional Government purpose question recollect ring Robert Parker saw Speirs School-green shew soner speak statute of Edward stop the mill street tell tion verdict William William Houstoun witness words
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Page 183 - Majesty, his heirs and successors, within this realm, in order, by force or constraint, to compel him or them to change his or their measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament...
Page 280 - ... when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or of our lady his queen, or of their eldest son and heir...
Page 183 - King, . . . and until the end of the next session of parliament after a demise of the crown, shall, within the realm or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend death or destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding, imprisonment or restraint...
Page 295 - ... high treason, within the clause of levying war; for though they are not levelled at the person of the king, they are against his royal majesty ; and besides, they have a direct tendency to dissolve all the bonds 'of society, and to destroy all property and all government too, by numbers and an armed force.
Page 350 - ... did compass imagine invent devise and intend to levy war against our said lord the king within this realm in order by force and constraint to compel him to change his measures and counsels...
Page 295 - In the present case it don't rest upon an implication that they hoped by opposition to a law to get it repealed; but the prosecution proceeds upon the direct ground, that the object was, by force and violence, to compel the legislature to repeal a law; and therefore, without any doubt, I tell you the joint opinion of us all, that, if this multitude assembled with intent, by acts of force and violence, to compel the Legislature to repeal a law, it is high treason.
Page 354 - In the present state of affairs, and during the continuation of so momentous a struggle, we earnesly request of all to desist from their labour, from and after this day, the 1st of April ; and attend wholly to the recovery of their rights, and consider it as the duty of every man not to recommence until he is in possession of those rights which distinguish the freeman from the slave, viz. that of giving consent to the laws by which he is to be governed.
Page 318 - Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual, and temporal...