Manoah Sibly
Published: 2018-01-20
Total Pages: 504
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Excerpt from The Genuine Trial of Thomas Hardy, for High Treason, Vol. 1: At the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, From October 28 to November 5, 1794 Jurors and Judges ought to feel an extraordinary anxiety that piofecutions of this nature fhould proceed upon folid grounds. I can cailly conceive therefore, that it mufi be a great relief to Jurors placed in the refponftble fituatton in Wind] you now fland, bound to do juflice to their country and to the parties ac cufed, and anxious to difcharge this trull faithfully fure I am that it is confolation and comfort to us, who have upon us the refponfibihty of declaring what the law is in cafes in Wth the public and the individual are fo deeply interefted to have fuch men as the great Sir Matthew Hale, and an eminent Judgq of our own times, who, with the experience of a century, conc'urs with him in Opinion, Sll' Michael Fofter, for our guides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.