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The case of seduction: being, An Account of the late Proceedings at Paris, as well Ecclesiastical as Civil, against The Reverend Abbee, Claudius Nicholas des Rues, for Committing rapes upon 133 virgins. Containing I. The Canon and Civil-Law relating to the two Kinds of Rapes. First, The Rape of Violence. Secondly, The Rape of Seduction: With the Opinions of the Doctors thereupon. II. The several Depositions exhibited against Monsieur des Rues: And his Defence. Translated from the French Original By Mr. Rogers.
Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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The history of the most remarkable tryals in Great Britain and Ireland, in capital cases, viz. Heresy, Treason, Felony, Incest, Poisoning, Adultery, Rapes, Sodomy, Witchcraft, Pyracy, Murder, Robbery, &c. Both by the unusual Methods of Ordeal, Combat, and Attainder, and by the Ecclesiastical, Civil and Common Laws of these Realms. Faithfully Extracted from Records, and other Authentick Authorities, as well Manuscript as Printed.
Date: 1715- Books
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Particulars of the life, trial, behaviour and execution of Richard Smith alias Jones, who was hanged ... at ... Nottingham on Wednesday, March 30, 1836, for a rape on Mary Green / [Richard Smith].
Smith, Richard (Richard M.)Date: [1836]- Books
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Select trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for murder, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences. To which are added, genuine accounts of the lives, behaviour, confessions and dying speeches of the most eminent convicts. In Four Volumes. From the year 1720, to this time. ... . From December 1720, to October 1723. Amongst a great many other remarkable Trials are, For Murder. James Hall, Sarah Malcomb, T. Billings, T. Wood, and Catherine Hayes, Capt. John Jayne, Richard Savage, James Clough, Lewis Houssart, Major J. Oneby, Burnworth, Blewit, and their Gang, T. Athoe, and his Son, &c. &c. &c. For the Highway. W. Gorden, W. Wreathock, and his Gang, T. Carr, and E. Adams, Mary Young alias Jenny Diver, James Dalton, &c. &c. &c. For Forgery. Richard Brabant, Parson Kinnersley, and W. Hales, &c. &c. &c. For Rapes and Attempts to Ravish. Arthur Gray, Samuel Street, Col. Charteris, William West, &c. &c. &c. For receiving stolen Goods. J. Barthelmi, Jonathan Wild, &c. &c. &c. For Burglary. John Sheppard, Edgworth Bess, &c. &c. &c. For Sodomy and Sodomitical Practices. Margaret Clap, Charles Hitchin, &c. &c. &c.
Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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Trial and conviction of Dr. Stephen T. Beale : with the letters of Chief Justice Lewis, and Judges Black and Woodward, on his case : interesting ether cases, and letters of Prof. Gibson, Prof. Wiltbank, Wm. Badger, Esq., W.L. Hirst, Esq., Rev. Albert Barnes, Dr. Henry A. Boardman, &c.
Date: 1855- Books
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The trials of all the prisoners who were try'd at the Assizes held at Maidstone, for the county of Kent, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, being the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, and 23d of March, 1749-50, before the Hon. Sir Thomas Denison, Knt. one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench. In which are the Remarkable Trials of John Stone, late of Challock Lees, for maliciously and wickedly setting Fire to the Barn, Corn and Hay-Ricks of Mr. John Clarke of Throwleigh; John Collington, a Gentleman Farmer of a considerable Estate, for counselling, abetting, aiding and hiring the said John Stone to commit the said wicked Act; also of Benjamin Baker and Francis Foster, for robbing on the High-Way; William Randal, for stealing a Marc; Henry Farleys, for robbing his Master, the late Mr. Clarke, of Denton, of 14 l. 18s. John Williams, for breaking open the House of Richard May, of St. Cosmus and Damian in the Bleaue, in the Night-Time, and stealing and taking away a Silver Watch, the Property of Stephen Gammon, who received Sentence of Death. Likewise Of James Lawrenson, for a Rape on Fanny Collier, a Child of Ten Years old; William Barlow, for a Rape on Mary Ray, the Wife of William Ray of Cliffe; Thomas Munn, for sending several threatening Letters to Michael Comport, of Cobham in Kent, and Stephen Barret and Joseph Gregory, for going in Disguise to the Barn of the abovementioned John Clarke of Throwleigh, and forcibly taking him from thence, beating him, and firing a Carbine and Pistol at him, for which Purpose they were hired by the abovesaid John Collington.
Great Britain. Assizes (Kent, England)Date: [1750]- Books
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The trial of Frederick Calvert, Esq; Baron of Baltimore, in the Kingdom of Ireland, for a rape on the body of Sarah Woodcock; and of Eliz. Griffinburg, and Ann Harvey, otherwise Darby, as accessaries before the fact, for procuring, aiding and abetting him in committing the said rape. At the assizes held at Kingston, for the county of Surry, on Saturday, the 26th of March, 1768. Before The Hon. Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe, Knt. One of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer. Published by permission of the judge. Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771.Date: M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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They shall not die! : the story of Scottsboro in pictures : stop the legal lynching!.
Amis, B. D., 1896-Date: 1932- Books
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The case of John Motherill, the brighthelmstone taylor; who was tried at East Grimstead, England, for a rape, and acquitted on Tuesday the 21st of March, 1786. Containing the particulars of his accidentally meeting with the young lady; what happened previous to their arrival at the Brighthelmstone church-yard; the ... why the scene of action was removed from that ... spot, to the bathing machine; what happened afterwards, &c. Wherein every transaction is minutely related, without supressing a single circumstance, whether it ... against or for him. (Written by himself.)
Motherhill, John.Date: [1786]- Books
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The trial of John Motherhill, for a rape, on the body of Catherine Wade, Daughter of John Wade, Esq. Master of the Ceremonies at Brighthelmstone. Tried Before Mr. Justice Ashurst, at the Lent assizes for the county of Sussex, held at East Grinstead, on Tuesday, the 21st of March, 1786.
Motherhill, John.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The case of Mademoiselle Cadiere against Father John-Baptist Girard, Jesuite: Wherein A. That religious is accused of having deluded the other by an abominable quietism, into the most animal excesses of lewdness; and under the veil of the highest mystial devotion, drawn six other votaries, who (like her) had put themselves under his direction into the like excesses. B. The fair plaintiff, in this case, charges the domine only with inchantment, rape, spiritual incest, abortion, and subornation of witnesses. Faithfully translated from the French original.
Cadière, Marie-Catherine, 1709-Date: M,DCC,XXXI. [1731]- Books
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The history of the most remarkable tryals in Great Britain and Ireland, in capital cases; Viz. Heresy, Treason, Felony, Incest, Poisoning, Adultery, Rapes, Sodomy, Witchcraft, Pyracy, Murder, Robbery, &c. Both by the unusual Methods of Ordeal, Combat, and Attainder; and by the Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Common Laws of these Realms. Faithfully extracted from Records, and other Authentick Authorities, as well Manuscript as Printed. In two volumes.
Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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The trial of John Motherhill, for committing a rape on the body of Miss Catharine Wade. Tried at the assize holden at East Grinstead for the county of Sussex, on Tuesday the 21st of March, 1786, Before the Hon. Sir William Henry Ashhurst, Knt. One of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench. Taken in Short-Hand, by Joseph Gurney.
Motherhill, John.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The trial of John Motherhill, for committing a rape on the body of Miss Catharine Wade. Tried at the assize holden at East Grinstead for the County of Sussex, on Tuesday the 21st of March, 1786, Before the Hon. Sir William Henry Ashhurst, Knt. One of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench. Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.
Motherhill, John.Date: [1786]- Books
Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships : the social-relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict, rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing, initiation, castration, fighting for status, contac sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; with a foreword by Steven Pinker.
Fiske, Alan Page, 1947-Date: 2015- Books
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The annals of Newgate; or, malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors, who have suffered an ignominious Death for their Offences, viz. for Parricide, Murder, Treason, Robbery, Burglary, Piracy, Coining, Forgery, and Rapes: From the Commitment of the celebrated John Sheppard, to the Acquittal of the equally celebrated Margaret Caroline Rudd. Including a Period of fifty Years and upwards, both in Town and Country. Calculated To expose the Desormity of Vice, the Infamy and Punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the Paths of Virtue; and intended as a Beacon to warn the rising Generation against the Temptations, the Allurements, and the Dangers of bad Company. The former Part extracted from Records; and the Histories and Transactions of the modern Convicts, communicated by the unhappy Sufferers themselves, since the Author has been appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others.
Villette, John, -1799.Date: 1776- Books
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The trials of the prisoners who were try'd at the assizes held at Maidstone, for the county of Kent, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, being the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, and 23d of March, 1749-50, before the Hon. Sir Thomas Denison, knt. one of the judges of the Court of King's Bench. In which are the remarkable trials of John Stone, late of Challock Lees, for maliciously and wickedly setting fire to the barn, corn and hay-ricks of Mr. John Clarke of Throwleigh; John Collington, a gentleman farmer of a considerable estate, for counselling, abetting, aiding and hiring the said John Stone to commit the said wicked act; also of Benjamin Baker and Francis Foster, for robbing on the highway; William Randal, for stealing a mare; Henry Farleys, for robbing on the highway; William Randal, for stealing a mare; Henry Farleys, for robbing his master, the late Mr. Clarke, of Denton, of 14l. 18s. John Williams, for breaking open the house of Richard Mey, of St. Cosmus and Domain in the Bleane, in the night-time, and stealing and taking away a silver watch, the property of Stephen Gammon, who received sentence of death. Likewise of James Lawrenson, for a rape on Fanny Collier, a child of ten years old; William Barlow, for a rape on Mary Ray, the wife of William Ray of Cliffe; Thomas Munn, for sending several threatening letters to Michael Comport, of Cobham in Kent, and Stephen Barret and Joseph Gregory, for going in disguise to the barn of the abovementioned John Clarke of Throwleigh, and forcibly taking him from thence, beating him, and firing a carbine and pistol at him, for which purpose they were hired by the abovesaid John Collington.
Great Britain. Assizes (Kent, England)Date: 1750- Books
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A compleat collection of remarkable tryals of the most notorious malefactors, at the sessions-house in the Old Baily, for near fifty years past; For the Crimes following, viz. Murthers, Highway-Robbing, Pyracy, House-Breaking, Foot-Padding, Rapes, Sodomy, Bestiality, Polygamy, Fortune-Stealing, Trepanning, Kidnapping, Shop-Lifting, Pertury, Counterfeiting the Coin, Exchequer-Bills, Bank-Notes, Stamps, &c. Together with A particular Account of their Behaviour under Sentence of Death, and Dying-Speeches. Faithfully Collected from the Books of Trvals, and Papers of Mr. Smith, Mr. Allen, Mr. Wikes, and Mr. Lorrain, Ordinaries of Newgate, from the first Printing of them, down to this present Time: And from other Authentick Narratives. ...
Date: [1718]-21- Books
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The case of sodomy, in the tryal of Mervin Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven, for committing a rape. And sodomy with two of his servants, viz. (Laurence Fitz Patrick and Thomas Brodway) who was try'd and condemn'd by his peers on the 25th of April, and beheaded on Tower-Hill, May 14th, 1631. With his articles of belief, sent in a letter to his son; the letter he writ to his four sisters, and his speech at the place of execution. Likewise the tryal and condemnation of Laurence Fitz Patrick and Thomas Brodway, who were executed at Tyburn, July 6th. With their dying speeches. Printed from an original manuscript.
Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631.Date: 1708- Books
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The case of Mary Katherine Cadiere, Against the Jesuite Father John Baptist Girard: Wherein He is accused of having seduced her by an abominable Quietism, into the most Criminal Excesses of Lewdness; and is also charged, by his said Fair Votary Mary Katherine Cadiere, with Inchantment, Rape, Spiritual Incest, Abortion and Sobonation of Witnesses, To which is Subjoyn'd, A true State of the Cases of the famous Guiol, La Gravier, La Baterelle, L'Allemande, La Reboul, and La Laugier, six other Fair Votaries, whom he is likewise charged with deluding, under the Veil of the highest Mystical Devotion.
Cadière, Marie-Catherine, 1709-Date: 1731- Books
Infanticide, secular justice, and religious debate in early modern Europe / by Adriano Prosperi.
Prosperi, AdrianoDate: [2016]- Books
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The old Bailey chronicle; containing a circumstantial account of the lives, trials, and confessions of the most notorious offenders who have suffered death, and other exemplary punishments, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the Commencement of the Year 1700, to the End of the Year 1788, for Bigamy, Burglary, Felony, Forgery, Footpad Robbery, Highway Robbery, High-Treason, Horse-Stealing, Murder, Petit-Treason, Perjury, Piracy, Rapes, Riots, Street-Robbery, and various other Offences and Misdemeanors. To which is Added, The Ordinary of Newgate's Account of every Capital Malefactor executed this Century. Properly arranged from the records of court, by James Mountague, Esq. Of the Temple. ...
Montagu, James, Sir, 1666-1723.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The malefactor's register; or, the Newgate and Tyburn calendar. Containing the authentic lives, trials, accounts of executions, and dying speeches, of the most notorious violators of the laws of their country; Who have Suffered Death, and other exemplary Punishments, in England, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to Lady-Day 1779. Together with Numerous Trials in Extraordinary Cases, where the Parties have been Acquitted. This Work comprehends all the most material Passages in the Sessions-Papers for a long Series of Years, and complete Narratives of all the Capital Trials for Bigamy, Burglary, Felony, Forgery, Highway-Robbery, High-Treason, Murder, Petit-Treason, Piracy, Rapes, Riots, Street-Robbery, Unnatural Crimes, And various other Offences. To which is added, A correct List of all the Capital Convictions at the Old Bailey, &c. since the Commencement of the present Century; which will be of the highest Use to refer to on many Occasions. The whole tending, by a general Display of the Progress and Consequence of Vice, to impress on the Mind proper Ideas of the Happiness resulting from a Life of strict Honor and Integrity: and to convince Individuals of the superior Excellence of those Laws framed for the Protection of their Lives and Properties. Embellished with a most elegant and superb set of copper plates, engraved in a spirited Manner, from original Designs, by capital Artists.
Date: [1779]- Ephemera
Crime and executions ephemera. Box 1.
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The trial of Robert Edgworth, Esquire, for subornation of perjury. In which are inserted, the several indictments; with the record of the acquittal of Mary Neil, on a charge of felony; and the sentence pronounced upon him, the arguments of the counsel, and charge of the judge. To which is prefixed, a short note of the trial of Maria Lewellin, for being present, aiding and assisting in committing a rape on Mary Neil, a child of between twelve and thirteen years of age; and the letter of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq; on that subject.
Edgworth, Robert.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]