[Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with High The like for Treason, at Savannah, in the colony of Georgia, in North high treason America. abroad. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with having The like in been guilty of the crime of High Treason in his majesty's his majesty's colonies and plantations, in America, contrary to the statute in that case made and provided. colonies. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for being For a selitithe author and publisher of a most scandalous and seditious ous libel. (k) libel, intitled The North Briton, number XLV. tending to inflame the minds, and alienate the affection of the people from his majesty, and to excite them to traitorous insurrections against the government. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for having For uttering on Wednesday morning last at, &c. unlawfully uttered cer- seditious extain treasonable and seditious words, and contemptuous pressi ns, of expressions of and concerning the king, to wit, that the king the king. (4) was a bloody rascal, and that he wished he was put to death; against the peace, &c. and concern [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for unlaw- For other sefully, wickedly, and maliciously uttering, speaking, and pub- ditious lishing certain wicked, malicious, and seditious words, of and words. (m) concerning our sovereign lord the king, and tending to bring him into contempt with his liege subjects, that is to say, “God damn and blast the king," (meaning our said lord the king) against the peace, &c. words [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with having For uttering on, &c. last, in St. George's Fields, in the county of Surrey, seditious maliciously spoken, expressed, uttered, and declared certain against his words and sentences to incite and stir up the people to majesty. (n) hatred and contempt of the person of his majesty, to wit, [71] "Damn and bugger the king; I wish his bloody head was off; against the peace, &c. him therefore, &c. words, [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67.] For that The like for he the said C. D. on, &c. at, &c. unlawfully, wickedly, and uttering seseditiously, did utter and declare in the presence and hear- ditious ing of divers of the liege subjects of our lord the king, the against his malicious and seditious words following, to wit; "Damn the Majesty, the king, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and all the royal family; I wish they were all blown up in the middle of hell with gun-powder.' (k) It was holden that this form is sufficient, and that it is not necessary to set forth the libel, 2 Wils. 151. Ante 1 vol. 112. see forms of Indictments and notes, ante 2 vol. 84 to 99. (1) See precedents of Indictments and notes, 2 vol. 84 to 99. Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, and all the Royal family. (0) (m) See precedents of Indictments and notes, 2 vol. 84 to 99. (n) See precedents of Indictments and notes, ante 2 vol. 84 to 99. (0) See precedents of Indictments and notes, ante 2 vol. 84 to 99. 'The like for For seditious words res. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with unlawfully, wilfully, and maliciously uttering and publishing divers seditious, scandalous and inflammatory words of and concerning our said lord the king, with intent to bring him into hatred and contempt with his liege subjects; against the peace, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with wilfulpecting the ly, maliciously, and seditiously speaking, uttering, and pubRebellion in lishing divers false, seditious, and inflammatory words, of and Ireland, not concerning the late rebellion in Ireland, and wishing success stating to the pikes, meaning the Irish rebels, with intent to move them. (9) and incite the liege subjects of our lord the king to hatred and contempt of our lord the king, and the government of his realm, against the peace, &c. On 37 Geo. 3. c. 123. for taking un. lawful oaths, not being forced so to do. (") For taking and framing unlawful oaths at Common Law. (8) [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with feloniously taken a certain oath and engagement purporting and intended to bind the said John Kealing not to reveal or discover a certain unlawful combination and confederacy made between the said J. K. and divers other evil disposed persons, (he the said J. K. not being compelled to take the said oath or engagement) against the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for unlawfully, wickedly, and seditiously meeting together with divers other persons, and consulting, advising, and agreeing to compose and frame a certain unlawful oath and engagement, purporting to bind the persons taking the same to commit treason and murder, with intent to take the same themselves, and feloniously to administer the same to divers liege subjects of our lord the king, against the peace, &c. therefore, &c. For being, [Commencement* and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for unlawaiding, and fully and feloniously being aiding and assisting at, and conassisting at senting to, the administering and taking of an oath or engagetering an un- ment, purporting and intended to bind A. B. the lawful oath. the adminis (1) person taking the same to be of an association, society, and confederacy formed to disturb the public peace, and not to inform or give evidence against any associate, confederate, or other person, and not to reveal or discover a certain unlawful combination and confederacy, and not to reveal and discover a certain illegal act done against the peace,&c. and against the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with unlawfully printing, and publishing, and causing and procuring to be printed and published a certain wicked, scandalous, and seditious libel, entitled "Thos. Paine to the people of England, (p) See Indictment and notes, ante 2 vol. 84 to 99. (g) See Indictments and notes, ante 2 vol. 84 to 99. (r) Ante 102. n. e. 3 East. 157. 52 Geo. III. c. 109. 6 East 414, 426. (s) See ante 2 vol. 102. (u) See precedent ante 2 vol. 84 to 89. 2 Wils. 151. and on the invasion of England," containing therein divers wicked, false, scandalous, and seditious matters, of and concerning our lord the king, and the constitution of this kingdom, and of and concerning the administration of the government, and the public affairs of this kingdom, and the principal officers and ministers, and also the liege subjects of our said lord the king, with intent to disturb the peace, and bring the person and government of our said lord the king, and the constitution of this kingdom into hatred and contempt, against the peace, &c. Commit. ment of a 30. s. 1. 2. 17. s. 2. Receive, &c. the body of A. B. brought before me, C. D. esquire, (by Thomas Green) and charged before me the said Deserter, justice upon the oath of the said T. G. and his own voluntary founded on confession with being a deserter from his majesty's sixty-9 Geo. 2 c. eighth regiment of foot guards, commanded by Colonel Geo. 2. chap. Reynolds, contrary to the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] For that he For a misdebeing a subject of his majesty hath, during the present war going into with France, unlawfully and voluntarily gone into France France, duwithout license from his majesty, under his sign manual, ring the war, or by order in council, or proclamation first had and obtain- without li ed, for that purpose, contrary to the statute in such case his majesty. made and provided; therefore, safely keep, &c. meanour in cense from soners of [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with a cer- For assisting tain misdemeanour, that is to say, with unlawfully and know- French Pri ingly carrying and conveying A. B. C. D. and E. F. three war to esFrench prisoners of war from Litchfield, in the county of cape, by con Stafford, to Whitechapel, in the county of Middlesex, in veying them order and with intent to enable and assist them to escape across the country. (w) out of and from this kingdom into parts beyond the seas, against the peace, &c. to escape out [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for a cer- For assisting tain misdemeanour in unlawfully, disloyally, and wickedly French pri aiding and assisting C. D. and three other French prisoners soners of war of war, to escape and go at large from and out of the limit of prison and in which they were detained, and conducting them from conveying Ashbourn, in the county of Kent, to Harbledown, in the said them. county, and harbouring, maintaining, and concealing them, [* 73] in order to enable and assist them to escape and go at large from and out of this kingdom into parts beyond the seas. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] upon the Commitment oath of C. D. with wilfully and knowingly aiding and assist-the escape of ing E. F. and G. H. two French prisoners of war, to escape French prifrom Thame, in Oxfordshire, where they were on their parole soners on of honour, and accompanying the said prisoners from Thame their parole aforesaid, to Stoken Church, in the said county, with intent to aid and assist them in making their escape from this country to France, against the peace, &c. (e) This offence was made felony by 52 Geo. III. c. 156. of honour. For assisting [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with unprisoner of lawfully, and wilfully, aiding and assisting the said C. D. he war to the said C. D. being a prisoner of war, to attempt to make ratly out of his escape from and out of this kingdom into foreign parts, against the peace, &c. escape gene the realm. For treason FOR OFFENCES AGAINST COIN. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with feloniously and treasonably counterfeiting the king's silver moshillings on ney, called shillings, against the statute, &c. 25 Edward III. stat. 5. c. 2. (w) For treason base money [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with feloin colouring niously and traitorously colouring with certain materials, like shit- producing the colour of silver, round blanks of base metal lings, on 8 & of a fit size and figure to be coined into counterfeit milled 9 W. III. c money, resembling the silver coin of this kingdom, called 26 s. 4. (x) shillings, contrary to the statute in that case made and provided, and against the peace, &c. For coining copper half pence on 11 Geo III. c. For treason [* 74] [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with unlawfully and feloniously making, coining, and counterfeiting certain copper money, called halfpence, &c. against the form, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with knowingly, feloniously, and traitorously having in his custody and possession two several moulds made of sand upon which were made and impressed, to wit, on one of the said moulds the figure, resemblance, and similitude of the head side of a shilling, and on the other of the said moulds the figure, resemblance, and similitude of the head side of a sixpence, without any lawful authority or sufficient excuse for that purpose, against the duty of his allegiance and against the form of the statute in that case made and provided. For having [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with feloin possession a cutting en. niously and traitorously having in his custody and possesgine for sion a certain cutting-engine for cutting round blanks by making shil-force of a screw out of flatted bars of gold or silver, without lings on 8 & lawful authority or sufficient excuse for that purpose against 26 (a) the statute, &c. 9 W III. c. On suspicion [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] on suspiof felonious cion of feloniously putting off certain counterfeit milled moly putting off counterfeit ney at and for a lower rate and value than the same by its denomination did import and was counterfeited for, to wit, at the rate of twenty counterfeit shillings for ten good shilthan its de- lings, against the statute, &c. money at a lower rate nomination imported, on off bad mo. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with For putting feloniously putting off certain counterfeit milled money, not ney at a lowcut in pieces, at and for a lower rate and value than the same er rate than by its denomination did import and was counterfeited for, its denomin that is to say, at the rate of two counterfeit shillings for one ation import. good shilling, against the statute, &c. ed, on 8 & 9 W III. c. 26. s. 6. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with For felonifeloniously making, coining, and counterfeiting certain coin, ously counterfeiting not the proper coin of this realm, nor permitted to be cur- Frederick rent within the same, but resembling and made with intent to D'ors, on 37 resemble and look like certain gold coin of a foreign prince, Geo. III c. to wit, the king of Prussia, called Frederick D'ors, at Bir- 126. s. 2. mingham, in the county of Warwick, against the statute, &c. counterfeit [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with Forteloni. feloniously making, coining, and counterfeiting certain coin, ously making not the proper coin of this realm, nor permitted to be current foreign coin, within the same, but resembling and made with intent to re- on 37 Geo. semble and look like certain silver coin of a foreign prince, III. c. 126. to wit, the king of Prussia, called Dedkes, at Birmingham, in s. 2 the county of Warwick, against the statute, &c. sion of trea son in mak. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with be- For mispri ing guilty of misprision of high treason, by falsely forging and counterfeiting several pieces of copper with impressions ing quarterresembling such coin of gold as is not the proper coin of this moidores, on realm, nor permitted to be current within this realm, to wit, 14 Eliz. c. 8. quarter moidores of the coin of the kingdom of Portugal, [* 75] against the statute, &c. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with un- For a misde mean urin lawfully uttering and tendering in payment to the said C. D. uttering a one piece of false and counterfeit money made and counter- counterfeit feited to the likeness and similitude of the good and current coin of this realm, called a sixpence, well knowing the same to be false, forged, and counterfeited, contrary to the statute, &c. shilling on 15 Geo II. c. 28. s. 2 (c) another form. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] for uttering The like in and tendering in payment to the said C. D. upon the 18th day of April instant, a certain false and counterfeit piece of money, knowing the same to be so, as and for the true and lawful silver coin of this kingdom, called a sixpence, contrary to the statute, &c. form. [Commencement and conclusion as ante 57 to 67] with un- The same in lawfully and unjustly uttering to the said S. D. three pieces another of false and counterfeit money and coin, made and counterfeited to the likeness and similitude of three pieces of good money and silver coin of this realm, called shillings, as and for three pieces of good and lawful current money and silver coin of this realm, knowing the same to be false and counterfeit, contrary to the statute, &c. Crim. Law. (c) See notes, 2 vol. 112. n. h. K |