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Trial of Captain Kidd

Archive Print Item: Law E-97/KID

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Type of record: Book

Title: Trial of Captain Kidd

Level: Item

Classmark: Law E-97/KID

Creator(s): Kidd, William (1701)

Additional creator(s): Brooks, Graham (Other); Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty (Other)

Related people: Moore, William, d. 1697; Brooks, Graham

Publisher: W. Hodge & Co., Ltd

Publication city: Edinburgh and; London

Date(s): [1930]

Language: English

Size and medium: x, 223 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/310849

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005777219705181

Description

Trials at the Admiralty sessions at the Old Bailey, May 8-9, 1701.


"There were six indictments against him, involving four separate trials. The first indictment charged him with the murder of William Moore, the gunner; the second indictment (second trail) with piracy in regard to the Quedagh Merchant; the third and fourth indictments (third trial), with piracy in regard to the ships seized by him on 20th September, 1697, and 27th November, 1697; the fifth and sixth indictments (fourth trial), with piracy in regard to the ships seized on 28th December, 1697, and 10th January, 1698."--p. 41.

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