A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783: With Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 4 |
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| Title | A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783: With Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 4 A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783: With Notes and Other Illustrations, Thomas Bayly Howell |
| Author | Thomas Bayly Howell |
| Compiled by | Thomas Bayly Howell |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2007 |
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