The Trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Esq., Timothy Brecknock, James Fulton, and Others, for the Murder of Patrick Randal Macdonnell, and Charles Hipson, Esquires: Also, the Trial of John Gallagher and Others, for an Assault on George Robert Fitzgerald, in the Goal [sic] of Castlebar : the Arguments of Council, the Lord Chief Baron Yelverton's Speech, the Attorney-General's Opening, the Address of Mr. Fitzgerald Previous to His Receiving Sentence, and the Whole Proceedings of the Court, Together with a Description of Their Conduct at the Place of Execution

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For G. Kearsley, 1786 - 183 pages
 

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Page 177 - I request of your lordship is, to give me the longest day possible, that I may be prepared to meet my God. However guilty I may be conceived within a narrow circle, I hope in a higher one the unprejudiced part of the world will think me innocent. Those who know me from my earliest life know me incapable of such an action. I never feared death, nor am I afraid to meet it in any shape, in the mos.t formidable, even an ignominious death. It may be thought I wish to solicit pardon. I would not accept...
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Page 65 - ... much he partaketh of an accessary, his indictment must be special of the receipt and not of the principal treason. If he is indicted by a several indictment, he shall not be tried till the principal be convicted ; if in the same indictment with the principal, the jury must be charged to...
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