High Crimes (155 results)

Condition: Very Good. Duke of Leeds faced impeachment for alleged corruption in public office. 6 pages, printed in double columns. Printed between 1809 and 1826, these historic documents are vivid extracts from Cobbett's State Trials; pages from the courtroom record that preserve the voices, arguments, and verdicts which helped…

Condition: Very Good. Action of debt to recover penalties for sitting and voting in Parliament without taking the oath therein prescribed. It was found by special verdict that the defendant professed the Jewish religion, and that, having been returned to the Commons House of Parliament for the borough of Greenwich, he had taken…

Condition: Very Good. On June 27th, 1850, Robert Pate, formerly a lietenant in the 10th Light dragoons, struck the queen on the forehead with a short stick, as the royal carriage was being driven out of the yard of Cambridge House into Piccadilly. Evidence of insanity was give. Verdict, Guilty. Sentenced to be transported for se…

Condition: Very Good. Indictment charging Simon Bernard, a French refugee, with being accessory before the fact to the murder at Paris, out of the Queen's dominions, of Nicolas Batty, one of the Gardes de Paris, killed in the Orsini plot to assassinate the Emperor Napoleon the third, outside the Paris Opera house on January 14,…

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassum…

Condition: Card Covers. Indictment for unlawful assembly and riot. Evidence was given that Williams and Vernon took part in organising the meeting at Clerkenwell Green on May 29, 1848, and the night procession through the streets, which was dispersed by the police, and that Williams and Vernon addressed procession from a coffeeh…

Condition: Very Good. Infringement of Civil Rights of Patrons. 42 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1892, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover…

Condition: Very Good. 58 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassu…

Condition: Card Covers. In July 1848 Fussell was indicted for making a seditious speech at a Chartist meeting at Clerkenwell Green, May 29, 1848, and for unlawful assembly and riot. Evidence was given that he denounced the conviction of John Mitchell, and said if Mitchell were sent out of the country, every Irishman must rise to…

Condition: Card Covers. 12 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unas…

Condition: Card Covers. On an indictment for shooting with intent, a felony punishable with transportation, the prisoner challenged two of the jurors pre-emptorily. The court having overruled the challenges, the prisoner was convicted and sentenced, but the judgement was afterwards reversed by the House of Lords on writ of error…

Condition: Very Good. 10 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassu…

Condition: Very Good. The introduction of English Law into Conquered or Ceded Country, the English Law of Real Property in India. 37 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1891, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell…

Condition: Very Good. 23 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassu…

Condition: Very Good. In February 1845, the Felicidade, a Brazilian schooner, having been captured by HMS Wasp, on a charge of slave trading, was placed in charge of an English officer and crew, and sent in pursuit of the Echo, a Brazilian brigantine, which was also captured a similar charge. The crew of the Echo having been tra…

Condition: Very Good. The acting judge of a Discrict Crminal Court in Bengal, caused the appellant, a British born subject, to be arrested and detained on a charge of riot. 8 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1892, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report ha…

Condition: Very Good. In June 1830 Viscount Courtenay presented a petition to the King, claiming the Earldon of Devon as heir male of Sir Edward Courtenay. 61 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed f…

Condition: Very Good. By certain treaties the Government of France agreed to pay to Spain a sum of money to be distributed among such Spanish subjects as had claims against the French Government. 8 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This par…

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but serv…

Condition: Very Good. William Cobbett published on the 11th of December 1830, in the Weekly Register with reference to fires and destruction of threshing machines in Hampshire and Wiltshire an article. Indictment for publishing a seditious libel alleging an intent to create discontent, and to incite violence. 58 pages, printed i…

Condition: Very Good. In August 1848, Kevin Izod O'Doherty, one of the registered proprietors and publishers of the Irish Tribune newspaper, was indicted for feloniously compassing to depose the Queen, etcetera, and to levy war against the Queen, etcetera, and expressing, uttering, and declaring such compassings by publishing ce…

Condition: Very Good. The plaintiff served as one of the churchwardens of a parish in the British Colony of Bermuda of which the defendant was Governor. 3 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from…

Condition: Very Good. The defendants attended a meeting at Birmingham on the 12th July 1819, at which speeches reflecting upon the House of Commons as then constituted were made, and resolutions were passed for the election of a legislatorial attorney, who would claim admission to the House as a representative of Birmingham. The…

Condition: Very Good. 18 pages, printed in double columns. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unassuming but ser…

Condition: Very Good. Admiral Napier, a natural-born British subject, acting as chief commander of a squadron in the naval service of Donna Maria, Queen of Portugal, without the licence of the King of England, and while the Queen of Portugal was at peace with England, captured a British registered steam vessel, the property of D…

Condition: Very Good. The Master was ordered to inquire to what persons, other than L.W., the custody of his infant children should be committed. It was also ordered that L.W. should be restrained from removing them. In pursuance of this order the children were placed under the care of M.L. One of the children was removed by L.W…

Condition: Very Good. An interesting account of the most famous political meeting in English history. 16 pages printed in double columns, plus 1 folding plan. A trial from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1889, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis…

Condition: Very Good. In August 1848, John Martin, registered proprietor and publisher of the Irish Felon newspaper, with indicted for feloniously compassing to depose the Queen and to levy war against her in order to force her to change measures, and expressing, uttering, declaring such compassing is by publishing certain artic…

Condition: Card Covers. 12 pages, printed in double columns. An original article from the Reports of State Trials, New Series, 1894, published in facsimile, 1982. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Macdonell & Wallis's State Trials and is now preserved in a modern card cover for practicality - an unas…