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Total number of records: 84

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection14
English Literature2
Leeds Russian Archive1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
trials (treason)84
trials45
popish plot, 16783
rye house plot, 16833
treason3
jacobite rebellion, 17152
bill of attainder1
criminal procedure1
dissenters1
jacobite rebellion, 1745-17461

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain14
France3
Hungary1
Ireland1
Soviet Union1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cobbett, William34
Cobbett, William (1763-1835)34
Howell, Thomas Bayly (1768-1815)34
Howell, Thomas Jones34
Howell, Thomas Jones (1793-1858)34
Jardine, David34
Jardine, David (1794-1860)34
Hargrave, Francis (1741?-1821)11
Great Britain10
Great Britain. Parliament5

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Earliest dateCount
From 160022
From 170020
From 180038
From 19004

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 169922
Up to 179920
Up to 189938
Up to 19994

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The trial of Francis Ravaillac for the murder of King Henry the Great : together with an account of his torture and execution

Ravaillac, Francois (1578-1610); Goldsmid, Edmund; France. Parlement (Paris)

1885

"Privately printed."

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The whole proceeding upon the arraignment, tryal, conviction, and attainder of Christopher Layer, Esq. for high treason in compassing and imagining the death of the King : in the Court of King's-Bench at Westminster... in the ninth year of the reign of our soveraign Lord George

Layer, Christopher (1683-1723)

1722 [i.e. 1723]

"Perused by the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice, and the rest of the judges of the Court of King's-Bench, and by the counsel for His Majesty, and for the prisoner". The order to print is dated Jan...

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The Lord Digbies speech in the House of Commons to the Bill of Attainder, of the Earle of Strafford, the 21 of April, 1641

Bristol, George Digby Earl of (1612-1677)

Printed in the yeare 1641

Also published with title: The Lord Digby his last speech against the Earle of Strafford. Final page mis-numbered 5 instead of 12.

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