Libels in Westminster Hall Aimed at Francis Eldridge and Others
In Westminster Hall a criminal information against Rev. Francis Eldridge for three libels on Mr Button and a Essex magistrate was granted. Libels included a picture of pillory, prose, and poetry titled ZacHAR TAH. Balder the printfeller faced similar action after Mr Button pressed charges over printed works. Witnesses described assaults and threats, resulting in a plaintiff verdict for £51.
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Bearcroft
Francis Eldridge
Button
Essex
Picure
Burton Hoes
Zachar Tah
Bearcrofé
Balder
Judgment for a libel against Samuel Perry 1790
The Attorney General moved for judgment against Samuel Perry for a libel in Paper No 529 published November 6 1790. Perry, unrepresented, argued his wartime service and loyalty but court denied a new trial, granting judgment against him with a fine to the King.
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Samuel Perry
Perry
King of Tool
Court halts judgment in excise officer assault case
Lord Kenyon arrest s verdict in the John Cartwright case after counsel argued the information lay in Middlesex while the offence occurred in Surrey. The court held the statute allows trials where officers act in execution, not for general assaults, and the judgment was arrested.
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John Cartwright
Ivy
Exfine
Surrey
Middlesex
Lord Kenyon
Westminster Hall
Wir
Bearcroft
Mingay
Weed
Kenyon
Customs of Excise
Northumberland
Cornwall
Dovey v Furs Driver Refused Payment After Incident
The plaintiff and defendants relate a March incident where a driver hired as post-chaile employee ferried a gentleman who drank heavily. upon return the next day the driver drowned in a tub of water. The case concerns living arrangements and demands for payment.
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Marc
Sysiker Eae Mici
Court orders writ returns by sheriff on due date
The court ordered all writs to be returned by the sheriff on their returnable day or the plaintiff may move for an attachment against the sheriff the next day. Previously it sufficed if writs were returned the morning after they were returnable before the court sat.
Armourers and Braziers Case on Admission to Freedom
Edward Smith sought to be admitted to the Freedom of the Armourers and Braziers Company via a writ of agendanus. The court heard that Smith had never been an apprentice, claiming eight years with Crawley and later factory work, and that he was only a clerk or superintendent. The ruling noted the need for free status to practice trade, and discussed historical avenues of admission by apprenticeship, indenture, or servitude, with Smith lacking proper apprenticeship.
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Gibbs
Armourers and Braziers
Edward Smith
Bearcroft
Smith
Crawley
Thames Street
Mr. Smith
Crawley, &c
Queen Ann
Sinieh
Leta
Kenyon
London
Harris
Butchers Company
Bhrther
London Freemen and trade rights in guilds dispute
A court heard Lord Kenyon and Mr. Gibbs discuss whether Mr. Smith, a Freeman of London, could carry on his trade despite a city bye law. The judges ruled no one may be barred from trade by such bye laws and affirmed Mr. Smith's right to pursue his craft within the Armourers and Braziers guild.
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Lord Kehye
Beerevolfi
Lord Kenyon
London
Gibbs
Cutlers Company
Armourers and Braziers Company
Smith
Bearcroft
Eyshine
Mr. Smith
Justice Buller
Erskine
Ir. Exstine
The King 7 Hart Case Marks Pillory Sentence
James Barnes Hart was indicted with Thomas Roberts for selling gloves without a stamp and, during trial, unlawfully taking money. The court deemed no discretion, sentencing Hart to the pillory for one hour in the market and committal to Newgate in execution of the sentence.
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James Barnes Hart
Thomas Roberts
Rényod
Justice 4m
Elizabeth
Newgate
Bowes Guilty of Assault After Hazard Game
Andrew Robinson Bowes was found guilty on an indictment for an assault on John Farley. The trial occurred Sunday night October 6 1790 in Dr Hudson's room amid a dispute with the prosecutor who insulted Bowes calling him thief excommunicated scoundrel and estia. Bowes was fined 6s 8d with remarks by Lord Kemton about future marshal circumspection. Serjeant Bond argued for Bowes noting the marshal would certify Bowes good conduct.
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Andrew
Robinson Bowes
John Farley
King’s Bench
Ocober
Bond
Bowes
Janes
Habeas Corpus Proceeding Notes in Early Proceedings
The record notes a motion for a writ of habeas corpus directed to the keeper of a jail to bring up a detainee for examination, indicating the procedural stage of the case and the agent responsible for custody.
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Gee
Bridewell
Child saved from forty foot well in Dighton Connecticut
A three year old child slipped into a near forty foot deep well. Women nearby urged the child to cling to a pole but no bucket. One woman climbed down the wall, caught the child in her apron, and brought it to its grateful mother as bystanders looked on.
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Dighton
Connecticut
Academy prizes in Brussels for 1791 and questions for 1793
The Academy of Sciences and belles lettres at Brussels distributed prizes for 1791 and set questions for 1792 and 1793. A prize remained unsettled on salt-works obstacles. honours were given for memorials on the Margaret Countess of Flanders dispute. future prompts ask about Austrian Low Countries manufacture, ancient Flanders Cantons, and plants per Linnaeus and Millar system with a gold medal prize of twenty five ducats for the Belpic History dissertation.
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Flanders
Margaret
Harbhauit
John
Baldwin
M. Ifpri de Thys
Tangerloo
Abbe Amaud
College of Ath
Low Countries
Bras de Flor
Academy
Low
Linnege
Millar
Cure for Bite of a Mad Dog with Egg Based Remedy
A historic folk remedy outlines a preparation from three egg yolks and other ingredients heated into a conserve. The instructions urge immediate use after a bite, with dosing over two days and avoidance of drink for six hours around doses. Wounds are to be scratched and dressed with the remedy and animal dosing repeats for other animals.
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LAW Reports
Court OF King’s Bench
John Rdperton
Lindsay
Furnith
Fur
Dovey
V. Furs
Holman
Shepherd
the King
Hart
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