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An account of the tryal of Charles Bateman, chirurgeon, for high-treason, in conspiring the death of the late King [Charles II] and the subversion of the Government etc. Who was tryed and found guilty, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, on the 9th of December, 1685. The tryals of John Holland and William Davis, for conspiring against, violently assaulting, and without any warrantable cause, imprisoning William Chancey ... who were tryed and found guilty ... December, 1685. As also the tryals of John Holland, William Davis, and Agnes Wearing. For a notorious burglarly and felony ... who were tryed and found guilty, at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, on the 11th of December, 1685 / [Charles Bateman].
Bateman, Charles, -1685.Date: 1685
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Trial of a Chinese woman charged with adultery: the trial before elders is shown taking place in an ancestral hall. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 567906i
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Saint Paul: with his hands in chains, he pleads his case at Caesarea before the Roman procurator of Judea, Antonius Felix. Engraving by L. Sullivan after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1752Reference: 8679i
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Three bodysnatchers in the dock: James May, Thomas Williams and John Bishop. Lithograph, ca. 1831.
Date: [1831?]Reference: 7698i
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Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.
Reference: 33977i
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A Chinese man with bound hands, surrounded by a guard holding a chain and a guard holding a stick, is kneeling before a magistrate seated at his desk and his two assistants. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579682i
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An account of the trial of Watson against Carr : at the Newcastle Assizes, August 2nd, 1823 before the Hon. Sir John Bayley, Knt.
Date: 1823
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Hanoi, Vietnam: four seated men restrained by the cangue round their necks are being tried for violent crimes by the tribunal of the French resident; armed guards standing by. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.E. Hocquard.
Hocquard, Charles-Edouard, 1853-1911.Date: 1889Reference: 579896i
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Causes celebres et interessantes, avec les jugemens qui les ont decidées / Recueillies par Mr. Gayot de Pitaval.
Gayot de Pitaval, François, 1673-1743.Date: 1737-1745
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The Newgate calendar improved : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England ... To which is added a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world, v.1-2 / by George Theodore Wilkinson.
Wilkinson, George Theodore.Date: [1819?]
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The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson.
Jackson, William, of the Inner Temple.Date: [1795]
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The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house. Etching after John Leech, 1845.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: [1845]Reference: 35899i
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Narratives of remarkable criminal trials / translated from the German of Anselm ritter von Feuerbach, by Lady Duff Gordon.
Feuerbach, Anselm, Ritter von, 1775-1833.Date: 1846
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A collection of state-trials and proceedings upon high-treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours, from the reign of King Edward VI to the present time. The seventh [-eighth] volume. With an alphabetical table to the two supplemental volumes.
Date: 1735
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Messrs. Rembrand and Nieman, the two corn-cutters who were remanded on Saturday, were again brought up : Mr. Septimus Pruen attended on the part of the defendants : Mr. Williams opened the case.
Date: [1834]
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40 days and 40 nights : Darwin, intelligent design, God, Oxycontin, and other oddities on trial in Pennsylvania / Matthew Chapman.
Chapman, Matthew, 1950-Date: [2007], ©2007
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A Chinese man with his hands bound behind his back and two red flags on his head is being whipped with wooden sticks, as he is led to trial by a man beating a gong. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
Date: 1 Jany. 1801Reference: 579684i

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Trial of a Chinese woman charged with adultery: the trial before elders is shown taking place in an ancestral hall. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.

Saint Paul: with his hands in chains, he pleads his case at Caesarea before the Roman procurator of Judea, Antonius Felix. Engraving by L. Sullivan after W. Hogarth.

Three bodysnatchers in the dock: James May, Thomas Williams and John Bishop. Lithograph, ca. 1831.

Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.

A Chinese man with bound hands, surrounded by a guard holding a chain and a guard holding a stick, is kneeling before a magistrate seated at his desk and his two assistants. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.

An account of the trial of Watson against Carr : at the Newcastle Assizes, August 2nd, 1823 before the Hon. Sir John Bayley, Knt.

Hanoi, Vietnam: four seated men restrained by the cangue round their necks are being tried for violent crimes by the tribunal of the French resident; armed guards standing by. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.E. Hocquard.

Causes celebres et interessantes, avec les jugemens qui les ont decidées / Recueillies par Mr. Gayot de Pitaval.

The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches ... Containing ... narratives ... of the various executions and other exemplary punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to the present time / by William Jackson.

The boy St Giles, arrested for stealing a hat belonging to the boy St James, is arraigned before the night-constable at Covent Garden watch-house. Etching after John Leech, 1845.

Narratives of remarkable criminal trials / translated from the German of Anselm ritter von Feuerbach, by Lady Duff Gordon.

A collection of state-trials and proceedings upon high-treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours, from the reign of King Edward VI to the present time. The seventh [-eighth] volume. With an alphabetical table to the two supplemental volumes.

Messrs. Rembrand and Nieman, the two corn-cutters who were remanded on Saturday, were again brought up : Mr. Septimus Pruen attended on the part of the defendants : Mr. Williams opened the case.

40 days and 40 nights : Darwin, intelligent design, God, Oxycontin, and other oddities on trial in Pennsylvania / Matthew Chapman.

A Chinese man with his hands bound behind his back and two red flags on his head is being whipped with wooden sticks, as he is led to trial by a man beating a gong. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.