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2. Trial for breach of promise of marriage, Miss Eleanor Palmer against Benjamin Barnard, Esq. at Guildhall, before Lord Kenyon and a special jury of merchants, on Wednesday, the 19th of December, 1792 : the damages were laid at twenty thousand pounds, and the jury gave a verdict for one thousand : the trial contains verbatim the speeches of counsel, and all the evidence that was produced in support of the action

4. The trial of Elizabeth Canning, spinster, for wilful and corrupt perjury : at Justice Hall in the Old-Bailey, held by adjournment, on Monday the 29th of April, Wednesday the 1st, Friday the 3d, Saturday the 4th, Monday the 6th, Tuesday the 7th, and Wednesday the 8th of May, 1754, before the Right Honourable Thomas Rawlinson, Esq., Lord-Mayor of the city of London, Sir Edward Clive, knt. one of the justices of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, the Honourable Heneage Legge, Esq., one of the barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, William Moreton, Esq., recorder, and others the justices, &c.

10. The trial of Spencer Cowper, Esq., John Marson, Ellis Stevens and William Rogers, Gent., for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Stout, a Quaker : before Mr. Baron Hatsell, at Hertford Assizes, July 18, 1699 ; The trial of Hugh Reason, and Robert Tranter, at the King's Bench, for the murder of Edward Lutterel, Esq., Feb. 3, 1721 ; The trial of John Woodburne and Arundel Coke, Esq., at Suffolk Assizes for felony, in wilfully slitting the nose of William Crispe, Gent., March 13, 1721 ; Proceedings in Parliament against James Earl of Derwentwanter, William Lord Widdrington, William Earl of Nithisdale, Robert Earl of Carnwath, William Viscount Kenmure, and William Lord Nairn, upon an impeachment for high-treason, Feb. 9, 1715 ; The trial of George Earl of Wintoun, upon an impeachment for high treason, March 15, 16, 19, 1715

12. The trial of the Rev. Mr. James Altham, of Harlow, in the county of Essex, vicar of St. Olave Jewry, rector of St. Martin, Iron-monger-Lane, and one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the County of Essex, for adultery, defamation and obscenity : in the Consistorial and Episcopal Court of London, at Doctors Commons, setting forth the whole of the evidence in that astonishing trial

13. The trial of Thomas Boulter and James Caldwell : the two noted flying highwaymen, who have for some time past committed numerous highway robberies in all parts of this kingdom : convicted at the castle of Winchester, on Friday the 31st of July, 1778, before the Hon. Sir Francis Buller, knt., of robbing William Embery on the King's Highway, near Horn-Dean, Hants, and of stopping and robbing the passengers in the Bath diligence, between Romsey and Southampton, in the same country

20. The triall of Lieut. Collonell John Lilburne : by an extraordinary or special commission of Oyear and Terminer at the Guild-Hall of London, the 24, 25, 26 of Octob. 1649 : being as exactly pen'd and taken in short hand, as it was possible to be done in such a croud and noise, and transcribed with an indifferent and even hand, both in reference to the court and the prisoner, that so matter of fact, as it was there declared, might truly come to publick view : in which is contained all the judges names, and the names of the grand inquest, and the names of the honest jury of life and death : unto which is annexed a necessary and essential appendix, very well worth the readers carefull perusal, if he desire rightly to understand the whole body of the discourse and know the worth of that ner'e enough to be prised bulwork of English freedom, viz., to be tried by a jury of legal and good men of the neighbour-hood