A Collection of the Most Remarkable and Interesting Trials: Particularly of Those Persons who Have Forfeited Their Lives to the Injured Laws of Their Country, Volume 2R. Snagg, 1776 |
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... hand . Friend . My Lord , I humbly move that I may have one William Courtney ( who is to be a principal witnefs for me at my trial , and is now a prifoner in the Gatehoufe ) fent for . L. C. J. [ Holt ] Is he your witness , Sir John ...
... hand . Friend . My Lord , I humbly move that I may have one William Courtney ( who is to be a principal witnefs for me at my trial , and is now a prifoner in the Gatehoufe ) fent for . L. C. J. [ Holt ] Is he your witness , Sir John ...
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... hand ? Blair . Yes , I think fo . Att . Gen. Have you feen Sir John Friend write ? Blair . Yes , I have feen him write , and I think it is the fame hand . Att . Gen. Then we defire it may be read . Then a Juryman defired he might be ...
... hand ? Blair . Yes , I think fo . Att . Gen. Have you feen Sir John Friend write ? Blair . Yes , I have feen him write , and I think it is the fame hand . Att . Gen. Then we defire it may be read . Then a Juryman defired he might be ...
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... hand to the letter , and he fhew'd me the letter , that he faid he had written to King James ; and there is this particular paffage to confirm it , it was at Mr. Pig- gott's mother's houfe ; I dined with him there that day , and when he ...
... hand to the letter , and he fhew'd me the letter , that he faid he had written to King James ; and there is this particular paffage to confirm it , it was at Mr. Pig- gott's mother's houfe ; I dined with him there that day , and when he ...
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... hand in it , and that it was none of Sir John Freind's own ; and that upon this Sir John Freind was angry , that he should fufpect that Sir John was not the writer of this letter ; all this fhews an intelligence with King James , and ...
... hand in it , and that it was none of Sir John Freind's own ; and that upon this Sir John Freind was angry , that he should fufpect that Sir John was not the writer of this letter ; all this fhews an intelligence with King James , and ...
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... hand , but the therefore preffed to Sir John Freind to contents of it , and the subsequent meeting furnith him with fome money ; fays Sir at the time and place mentioned in the John , there is 100l . due to me , becaufe I letter is a ...
... hand , but the therefore preffed to Sir John Freind to contents of it , and the subsequent meeting furnith him with fome money ; fays Sir at the time and place mentioned in the John , there is 100l . due to me , becaufe I letter is a ...
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