Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge ScholarsGooch, Richard
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Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars
Gooch, Richard
University of Cambridge -- Anecdotes; University of Oxford -- Anecdotes
Trial by combat, between Henry Plantagenet, duke of Hereford
and Lancaster, and afterwards king of England by the title of
Henry IV., and Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, earl-marshal
of England, 1897.
Captain John Gow and others, for piracy, 1729.
William Burke and Helen McDougal for murder, 1828.
Charles Macklin (the author), for the murder of Thomas
Hallam, May 1735.
Mary Young, _alias_ Jenny Diver, for privately stealing,
1740.
George Henderson and Margaret Nisbet, for forging a bill on
the dutchess of Gordon, 1726.
John Chide, of Dalry, for the murder of the Right Hon. Sir
George Lockhart, of Carnwith, lord-president of the court of
sessions, and member of his majesty's privy council, 1689.
William Henry, duke of Cumberland, for adultery with Lady
Grosvenor, 1770.
Robert and Daniel Perrean, for forgery, 1775.
Margaret Caroline Rudd, for forgery, 1775.
Henry White, Jr., for a libel on the duke of Cumberland,
1813.
Philip Nicholson, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, at
Maidstone, 1813.
Mr. William Cobbett, for libel, in the court of King's Bench,
1810.
John Bellingham, Esq., for the murder of the Right Hon.
Spencer Perceval, chancellor of the exchequer, in the lobby
of the House of Commons, May 11, 1811.
Mary Stone, for child murder, preferred by her sister, at
Surry assizes, 1817.
Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, and others, for high-treason,
at the Old Bailey, 1820.
Thomas, earl of Stafford, for high-treason, 1643.
_Trial of the Rebels in_ 1745:
Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie, Balmerino, and Lovat.--Charles
Ratcliffe, Esq.--Townley and Dawson.--Fletcher and
Syddall.--Dr. Cameron.
Rob Roy Macgregor, and other Macgregors, 1700 to 1746.
Alexia Petrowitz Czarowitz, presumptive heir to the crown of
Russia, condemned to death by his father, 1715.
Joseph Hunton, a Quaker, for forgery, 1828.--His execution.
Captain Witham Kidd, for murder and piracy, 1701.
Remarkable case of witchcraft, before Matthew Hale, 1662.
The Salem Witches.
_Sufferers for pretended Witchcraft in Scotland._
Alison Pearson.--Janet Grant and Janet Clark, 1828.--John
Cunningham, 1590.--Agnes Sampson, 1591.--John Fien,
1591.--Euphan M'Calzene, 1591.--Patrick Lawrie,
1606.--Margaret Wallace, 1620.--Isobel Young,
1629.--Alexander Hamilton, 1630.--John Neil, 1630.--Janet
Brown and others, 1640.
The Samuelston Witches--Isobel Elliot, and nine other women,
1678.
Impostor of Barragan, 1696.
Trial by combat, between Sir John Annesley, Knight, and
Thomas Katrington, Esq., 1380.
James George Lisle, _alias_ Major Semple, for stealing, 1795.
Queen Emma, trial by fire-ordeal.
John Horne Tooke, for high-treason, 1791.
Joseph Thompson Hare, for mail-robbery in Virginia, 1818.
Richard Carlile, for a libel, 1819.
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