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Brotherton Collection	16
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1

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criminal law	24
capital punishment	7
forgery	3
pleas of the crown	1
treason	1

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Great Britain	16
Halifax (England)	1

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron (1800-1859)	16
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell (1786-1845)	6
Mackintosh, James	3
Mackintosh, Sir James (1765-1832)	3
Bentley, William	1
Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634)	1
Eland, John, Sir	1
Midgley, Samuel (1695)	1

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Severity of punishment : speech of Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq., in the House of Commons, Wednesday, May 23rd, 1821, on the bill "for mitigating the severity of punishment in certain cases of forgery, and the crimes connected therewith."

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell (1786-1845)

1821

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Severity of punishment : speech of Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq., in the House of Commons, Wednesday, May 23rd, 1821, on the bill "for mitigating the severity of punishment in certain cases of forgery, and the crimes connected therewith."

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell (1786-1845)

1821

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Severity of punishment : speech of Thomas Fowell Buxton, Esq., in the House of Commons, Wednesday, May 23rd, 1821, on the bill "for mitigating the severity of punishment in certain cases of forgery, and the crimes connected therewith."

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell (1786-1845)

1821

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Hallifax and its gibbet-law placed in a true light : Together with a description of the town; the nature of the soil; the temper and disposition of the people; the antiquity of its customary law, and the reasonableness thereof; with an account of the gentry, and other eminent persons born and inhabiting within the said town, and the liberties thereof: with many other matters and things of great remark, never before publish'd. To which are added, the unparallel'd tragedies committed by Sir John Eland, of Eland, and his grand antagonists

Midgley, Samuel (1695); Bentley, William

1708

First edition. Part title-page, [p. 107]: "Revenge upon revenge; or, An historical narrative of the tragical practices of Sir John Eland, of Eland... The whole being divided into three equal parts. ...

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