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A view of ancient laws, against immorality and profaneness; Under the following Heads; Lewdness; Profane Swearing, Cursing, and Blasphemy; Perjury; Prophanation of Days devoted to Religion; Contempt or Neglect of Divine Service; Drunkenness; Gaming; Idleness, Vagrancy, and Begging; Stage-Plays and Players; and Duelling. Collected from the Jewish, Roman, Greek, Gothic, Lombard, and other laws, down to the middle of the eleventh century. By John Disney, M. A. Vicar of St. Mary's in Nottingham.
Disney, John, 1677-1730.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]
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Members of a parliamentary committee sit round an oblong table; above are upper tiers where the chairman and clerk sit 'framing' a report on the fraudster, Christopher Atkinson. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1782.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: Aug 12 1782Reference: 585049i
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The great wickedness of perjury, and of the present rebellion. A sermon Preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of Canterbury, On Sunday, Nov. 20. 1715. By Tho. Greene, D. D. Archdeacon and Prebendary of Canterbury, Master of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty.
Greene, Thomas, 1658-1738.Date: 1715
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The religion of an oath. Plain directions how the duty of swearing, may be safely managed, when it is justly demanded. And strong persuasives to avoid the perils of perjury. Concluding with a most solemn explanation of an oath, which the laws of Denmark have provided for the consideration of them, whom an oath is propos'd unto. Published at the desire of some, who apprehend oaths to be too frequently and faultily trifled with.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1719
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The Tichbourne trial : the summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England, together with the addresses to the judges, the verdict, and the sentence; the whole accompanied by a history of the case and copious alphabetic index / [By the lord chief justice of England.].
Cockburn, Alexander James Edmund, Sir, 1802-1880.Date: 1874

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Members of a parliamentary committee sit round an oblong table; above are upper tiers where the chairman and clerk sit 'framing' a report on the fraudster, Christopher Atkinson. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1782.

The great wickedness of perjury, and of the present rebellion. A sermon Preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of Canterbury, On Sunday, Nov. 20. 1715. By Tho. Greene, D. D. Archdeacon and Prebendary of Canterbury, Master of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty.

The Tichbourne trial : the summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England, together with the addresses to the judges, the verdict, and the sentence; the whole accompanied by a history of the case and copious alphabetic index / [By the lord chief justice of England.].