The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk GirlCobbold, Richard
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The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl
Cobbold, Richard
Catchpole, Margaret, 1762-1819 -- Fiction
The Lord Chief Baron Sir Archibald Macdonald was this time accompanied
by Sir Beaumont Hotham. The juries for the county and liberty were the
following honourable gentlemen:--
FOR THE COUNTY
Lord Viscount Broome.
Charles Berners, jun., Esq.
B. G. Dillingham, Esq.
P. J. Thelluson, Esq.
George Wilson, Esq.
Matthias Kerrison, Esq.
Wolfran Lewis, Esq.
Mileson Edgar, Esq.
John Cobbold, Esq.
Edward Studd, Esq.
Anthony Collet, Esq.
Joseph Burch Smith, Esq.
John Farr, Esq.
John Dresser, Esq.
William Philpot, Esq.
James Reeve, Esq.
Edmund Barber, Esq.
James Stuttur, Esq.
FOR THE LIBERTY
Sir T. C. Bunbury, Bart.
Sir T. C. Cullum, Bart.
Sir Harry Parker, Bart.
Barnard E. Howard, Esq.
N. Barnadiston, Esq.
Nathaniel Lee Acton, Esq.
Capel Lofft, Esq.
John Mosley, Esq.
Joshua Grigby, Esq.
William Mannock, Esq.
John Wastell, Esq.
Robert Walpole, Esq.
Richard Cartwright, Esq.
Thomas Cocksedge, Esq.
Thomas Mills, Esq.
James Oakes, Esq.
Thomas Gery Cullum,
Esq.
Abraham Reeve, Esq.
George Archer, Esq.
William B. Rush, Esq., Sheriff.
The usual forms of the court having been gone through, Margaret
Catchpole was again placed at the bar. Margaret was dressed, as
formerly, in a plain blue calico dress. She appeared pale and thin, but
perfectly free from any of that emotion which she formerly exhibited.
There was a calmness of deportment without the least obduracy, and no
obtrusive boldness nor recklessness. She did not look round the court
with any of that anxiety she formerly exhibited, as if she wished to see
any one there who knew her. She knew that Will Laud was gone, and that
neither her father nor her brother was there. She was quite indifferent
to the public gaze, and with her eyes cast down upon the bar, she saw
not that piercing glance which the judge gave her as she took her
station before him, though every person in court noticed it, and looked
at the prisoner to see if she did not quail before it.
The indictment having been read aloud, once more the clerk of the court
addressed her in these terms:
"How say you, prisoner at the bar, are you guilty or not guilty?"
Margaret lifted up her dark eyes once more, and looking her judge calmly
in the face, said--
"Guilty, my lord."
There was a perfect stillness in that crowded court, while the judge now
addressed her in the following terms:--
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