The trial of Laurence Earl Ferrers, for the murder of John Johnson, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers. In Westminster-hall, in full Parliament, on Wednesday the 16th, Thursday the 17th, and Friday the 18th of April, 1760: on the last of which days, judgment for murder was given against him ... / [Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers].

  • Shirley, Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, 1720-1760.
Date:
1760
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Credit: The trial of Laurence Earl Ferrers, for the murder of John Johnson, before the Right Honourable the House of Peers. In Westminster-hall, in full Parliament, on Wednesday the 16th, Thursday the 17th, and Friday the 18th of April, 1760: on the last of which days, judgment for murder was given against him ... / [Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forth, before Henry Bathurjl, Efquire, one of the Juftices of our faid Lord the King, of his Court of Common Bench ; James Hewitt, Efquire, one of the Serjeants at Law of our faid Lord the King, and others their Fellows, Juftices of our faid Lord the King, afiigned by Letters Patent of our faid Lord the King, under his Great Seal of Great Britain^ to them and others, and any Two or more of them made, of whom our faid Lord the King would have the faid Henry Bathurjl, Efquire, and James Hewitt, Efquire, to be One, to enquire more fully the Truth, by the Oath of good and lawful Men of the County aforefaid, and by all other Ways, Means, and Methods, by which they mould or might better know (as well within Liberties as without) by whom the Truth of the Matter may be the better known and enquired into, of all Treafons, Mifprifions of Treafons, Infurredions, Rebellions, Counterfeitings, Clippings, Warnings, falle Coinings, and other Falfities, of the Moneys of Great Britain, and of other Kingdoms or Dominions whatfoever ; and of all Murders, Felonies, Man- flaughters, Killings, Burglaries, Rapes of Women, unlawful Meetings and Conventicles, un- lawful Uttering of Words, AlTemblies, Mifprifions, Confederacies, falfe Allegations, Tref- paffes, Riots, Routs, Retentions, Efcapes, Contempts, Falfities, Negligences, Concealments, Maintenances, OpprefTions, Champarties, Deceits, and all other evil Doings, Offences, and Injuries whatfoever, and alfo of the Acceffaries of them, within the County aforefaid (as well within Liberties as - without) by whomfoever, and in what manner foever, done, committed, or perpetrated, and by whom or to whom, when, how, and after what manner, and of all other Articles and Circumftances concerning the Premifes, and every or any of them, in any manner whatfoever; and the faid Treafons, and other the Premifes, according to the Laws and Cuftoms of England., for this Time, to hear and determine, by the Oath of John Grey, John Palmer, Thomas Boolhby the Elder, William Pochin, Nathan Wrighte, Charles Skrymjher Boothby, Thomas Boothby the Younger, Jofeph Craddock, Edward Farnham, Rogers Rudding, Charles Morris, Efquires ; John Smalley, Richard Walker, John Willows, James Silmey, Thomas Ayre, Gabriel Newton, and Robert Hames, Gentlemen •, good and lawful Men of the County aforefaid, then and there fworn, and charged to enquire for our laid Lord trj£ King, for the Body of the fame County. It is prefented, That the Bill of Indictment hereunto annexed is a true Bill. Leicejierjhire.l HT^ H E Jurors for our prefent Sovereign Lord the King, upon their Oath, Tamworth, late ot the Parifh of Breedon, in the County of Leicefier, not having the Fear of God before his Eyes, but being moved and feduced by the Inftigation of the Devil, on the Eighteenth Day of January, in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of our prefent Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and fo forth, with Force and Arms, at the Parifh of Breedon, in the County of Leicejler aforefaid, in and upon one John John/on, in the Peace of God, and of our faid Lord the King, then and there being, felonioufly, wilfully, and of his Malice aforethought, did make an Affault, and that He the faid Lawrence Earl Ferrers, Vifcount Tamworth, with a cer- tain Piftol of the Value of Two Shillings, then and there being charged with Gunpowder, and a leaden Bullet, which Piftol he the faid Lawrence Earl Ferrers, Vifcount Tamworth, in his Hand then and there had and held, at, againft, and upon, him the faid John John/on, then and there felonioufly, wilfully, and of his Malice aforethought, did difcharge and (hoot off: And that he the faid Lawrence Earl Ferrers, Vifcount Tamworth, with the leaden Bullet aforefaid, by Force of the Gunpowder aforefaid out of the faid Piftol, by him the faid Lawrence Earl Ferrers, Vifcount Tamworth, fo as aforefaid difcharged and lhot off, him the faid John John/on, in and upon the Left Side of the faid John John/on, a little under the loweft Rib of the faid John John/on, then and there felonioufly, wilfully, and of his Malice aforethought, did ftrike and wound, giving to the faid John John/on then and there, with the leaden Bullet aforefaid, out of the faid Piftol fo as aforefaid difcharged and (hot off, in and upon the faid Left Side, a little under the loweft Rib of the faid John John/on, One mortal Wound, of the Breadth of One Inch and Depth of Four Inches ; of which laid mortal Wound the iaid John John/on, at the faid Parifh of Breedon, in the faid County of Leicejler, did languifh, and languilhing did live, until the Nineteenth Day of the fame Month of January, in the Thirty-third Year aforefaid ; on which faid Nineteenth Day of January, about the Hour of Nine of the Clock in the Morning, he the laid John John/on, at the Parifh of Breedon aforefaid, in the County of Leicejler aforefaid, of the mortal Wound aforefaid died: And lo the Jurors aforefaid, upon their Oaths aforefaid, do fay, That the faid Lawrence Earl Ferrers, Vifcount Tamworth, the faid John John/on, in manner 5 and Blencowe.-' Lawrence Earl Ferrers, Vifcount