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trade to Russia. 7. For preventing irregular enlarging the time for purchasing certain reverproceedings of sheriffs and other officers, in sionary annuities therein mentioned. 4. For making the returns of members chosen to serve the further preventing the growth of popery. in parliament. 8. For making and keeping 5. For the repair of Dover harbour. 6. To the river Tone navigable from Bridgewater to enable his majesty's natural-born subjects to Taunton, in the county of Somerset. 9. For inherit the estate of their ancestors, either ligranting the sum of 1,484,015. 1s. 113d. for neal or collateral, notwithstanding their father disbanding the army, providing for the navy, and mother were aliens. 7. For the more ef and for other necessary occasions. 10. To fectual suppression of piracy. 8. For the apprevent the exportation of wool out of the pointing commissioners to take, examine, and kingdoms of England and Ireland into foreign determine the debts due to the army, navy, parts, and for the encouragement of the wool- and for transport service: and also an account Jen manufactures in the kingdom of England, of the prizes taken during the late war. 9. 11. To enable such officers and soldiers as For preventing of frivolous and vexatious suits, have been in his majesty's service, during the in the principality of Wales, and the counties late war, to exercise trades; and for officers to Palatine, 10. For the more effectual employaccount with their soldiers. 12. For raising ing the poor, by encouraging the manufactures the militia for the year 1699, although the of the kingdom. 11. To repeal an act made in month's pay formerly advanced be not repaid. the 9th year of his majesty's reign, intitled, ‹ An 13. For the continuing the imprisonment of Act for rendering the laws inore effectual for V Counter, and others, for the late preventing the importation of foreign bone horrid Conspiracy to assassinate his sacred ma- lace, loom lace, needle work, point, and cut jesty. 14. For limiting certain times within work,' three weeks after the prohibition of the which Writs of Error shall be brought for the woollen manufactures in Flanders shall be reversing fines, commou recoveries, and ancient taken off. 12. To punish governors of plantajudgments. 15. For continuing the act for tions in this kingdom, for crimes by them comthe more easy recovery of small tythes. 16. mitted in the plantations. 13. For continuing To enable posthumous children to take es- several laws therein mentioned, and for extates, as if born in their father's life-time. 17. plaining the act, intituled, An act to prevent For suppressing of lotteries. 18. For taking the exportation of wool out of the kingdoms of off the remaining duties upon glass wares. 19. Ireland and, England unto foreign parts, and For making and keeping navigable the rivers for the encouragement of the woollen manufacof Aire and Calder in the county of York. tures in the kingdom of England.' 14. For 20. For making and keeping the river Trent in raising the militia for the year 1700, although the counties of Leicester, Derby and Stafford, the month's pay formerly advanced be not renavigable. 21. For laying further duties upon paid. 15. For the ascertaining the measures sweets, and for lessening the duties as well for retailing ale and beer. 16. For the better upon vinegar, as upon certain low wines and ascertaining the tythes of hemp and flax. whale fins, and the duties upon brandy im- To prevent disputes that may arise of officers ported, and for the more easy raising the du- and members of corporations having neglected ties upon leather, and for charging cinders, and to sign the Association, and taken the Oaths in for permitting the importation of pearl ashes, due time. 18. For the more effectual punishand for preventing abuses in the brewing of ing of vagrants, and sending them whither by beer and ale, and frauds in the importation of law they ought to be sent. 19. To enable justobacco. 22. For the more full and effectual tices of peace to build and repair gaols in their charging of the duties upon rock salt. 23. For several counties. 20. For taking away the duthe better apprehending, prosecuting, and pu- ties upon the woollen manufactures, corn, nishing of felons that commit burglary, house-grain, bread, biscuit, and meal exported. breaking, or robbery, in shops, warehouses, coach-houses, or stables, or that steal horses. 24. For making Billingsgate a free market for sale of fish. 25. To encourage the trade to Newfoundland. 26. For opening the ancient and making any new roynes and water-courses in and near Sedgmoor, in the county of Somerset, for rendering the said Moor more healthful and profitable to the inhabitants.

11 W. III. 1. For taking away the bounty money, for exporting corn, from the 9th Feb. 1699, to the 29th Sept. 1700.

11 & 12 W. III. 2. For granting an aid to his majesty, by sale of the forfeited and other estates and interests in Ireland, and by a land tax in England, for the several purposes therein mentioned. 3. For laying further duties upon wrought silks, muslins, and some ther commodities of the East Indies, and for

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For the explanation and better execution of former acts made touching watermen, and wherrymen rowing on the river of Thames, and for the better ordering and governing the said watermen, &c. upon the said river, between Gravesend and Windsor. 22. For making the river Lark, alias Burne, navigable. 23. For the better preserving the navigation of the rivers Avon and Froome, and for cleansing, paving and enlightening the streets of the city of Bristol. 24. To enable the mayor and citizens of the city of Chester, to recover and preserve the navigation upon the river Dec.

12 W. III. 1. For renewing the bills of credit commonly called Exchequer bills. 2. For the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and libertics of the subject. 3. For preventing any inconveniences that may happen by privilege of parlia◄

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END OF VOLUME V.

7. C. Hansard, Printer,"
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Fleet-Street.

On Monday, the 2nd of January, 1809, was published (to be completed in Thirty-six Monthly Parts, forming Twelve large Volumes in Royal Octavo),

PART THE FIRST, price 10s. 6d. of

COBBETT'S

COMPLETE COLLECTION

OF

State Trials,

AND PROCEEDINGS FOR HIGH TREASON, AND OTHER
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, FROM THE
PERIOD DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME.

EARLIEST

IN proceeding with the PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY, which it has been, and is, one of the principal objects of my life to lay complete before the public of the present day, and, in that state, to have the satisfaction of leaving it to posterity, I have, for some time past, perceived, that there would still be wanting a Work like that above-described. In putting to myself this question, "How shall I go to work to secure the best chance of rendering a son capable of accomplishing great things; fit to have a share in guid"ing the minds of others; of weight sufficient to make him an object of respect with "good, and of dread with bad, public-men?" In putting this question to myself, the answer my mind suggested was: "Suffer not his time to be wasted in learning sounds "instead of sense; suffer not his body and mind to be debilitated by continual con"finement and continual controul and correction. Give him, God being your helper, " a sound body and strong limbs; habituate him to bear fatigue, to move with confi. "dence and rapidity in the dark; to fare and to sleep hard; and, above all other "things in the world, to rise with the lark, thus making his year equal to eighteen "months of his effeminate contemporaries. Next lead him into the paths of knowledge, "not minding whether pedants call it learning, or not; and, when he arrives at the proper age for acquiring that sort of knowledge, make him acquainted with every thing material, as to public affairs, that has really occurred in his country from the "earliest times to the present day. Open to him the book, not of speculation but of "unerring experience. That he may be able to judge of what is, as well as of what ought to be, show him, in detail, all the political causes and effects, to be found in our history, make him see clearly how this nation has come up, and how this govern"ment has grown together."

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LIAMENTARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND; and from the same source arises the Work, which I now submit to the judgment of the public. As I proceeded with the HisTORY, I found, that to read discussions, relating to Trials for High Treason and for other high Crimes and Misdemeanors, and not to be able to refer immediately to those Trials, they being so intimately connected with the history of the parliament, and being a detailed relation of some of the most important and most interesting events to be recorded, could not fail to be greatly disadvantageous to the student: yet to bring into the HISTORY such a mass of legal proceedings, which admitted of little abridgment, was, for several reasons, not to be thought of. I, therefore, resolved to form them into a separate Work, to be published during the same time, and in the same manner, as to paper and print, with the PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY.

Besides the consideration of uniformity, there were others which had great weight in this determination. The STATE TRIALS are now to be found only in an edition of Eleven Volumes in folio, a form so unwieldy that it is impossible they should ever be much read, to say nothing of the incomplete state, or of the expence; which latter alone, owing to the scarceness of even this imperfect edition, must be a serious obstacle to general circulation. So that this Work, though so absolutely necessary to the lawyer and the professed politician, very curious, interesting and instructive, in itself, and, in a high degree, illustrative of the legal, political, and constitutional history of the country, is to be met with in but very few private libraries, those of counsellors and solicitors not excepted. The mere reduction of size, from the unmanageable folio of former editions to that of the Royal Octavo, double page, which unites economy with convenience, will, in itself, be no inconsiderable improvement. But, the proposed edition will possess the following additional Advantages:

1. The Series will commence more than two hundred years before the time of the
earliest transaction noticed in the former Editions.

2. Many very important Trials and curious matters, omitted in the former Edi-
tions, though occurring within the period which those Editions embrace, will
be supplied; and the Series will be continued down to the present time:
3. The whole of the matter contained in the last Edition will be scrupulously pre-
served; so that, for the purposes of Legal Reference and Citation, the autho-
rity of the Work will be unquestionable:

4. The different Articles, relative to each case, will be placed together, so that
the trouble of frequent references backwards and forwards attending a pe-
rusal of the former Editions, will be avoided; and, where references from
one part of the work to another necessarily occur, the paging of the present
work will alone be regarded, so that the confusion arising from the various
pagings of the former editious will, in no case, arise to teaze and retard the
reader:

3. The Trials, instead of being placed in the vexatious disorder of the former editions, will stand in one regular chronological succession, unless where a dif

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ferent arrangement shall be dictated by some special reason; as, for instance, where more Trials than one concern the same party, or the same transaction; for, in such cases, it may sometimes be thought advisable to break through the order of time, for the sake of exhibiting together all the particulars relating. to the same matter or the same person:

6. Brief Historical Notices of the conspicuous persons mentioned in the Work, or references to published Accounts of them, will be inserted:

7. Where Points of Law arise, references will be made to those parts of the Law Digests, or Treatises on Criminal Law, in which the principles and cases, relating to such points, are laid down, or collected:

S. In like manner, references will be made to my Parliamentary History for Parliamentary Proceedings connected with any Trial, and to other works calculated to elucidate any part of this Collection of Trials:

9. Some Trials before Courts Martial, but those only of the greatest importance and most general interest, and illustrative of the history of the times, will be preserved in this Work:

10. To each Volume will be prefixed a full and clear Table of Contents; and in the last Volume there will be a GENERAL INDEX to the whole Work, so complete that I hope it will be found to leave nothing of any importance difficult to be referred to:

11. In the last Volume will also be given what I call a PARALLEL INDEX, consisting of two Columns; in the first of which will be inserted, in their order, the numbers of all the Pages in the last Edition; and in the other, correspondent figures shewing in what Volume and Page of the present Work the contents of each page of the last Edition will be found; by means of which Parallel Index, the place in this Work of any passage occurring in the last Edition, may be ascertained with nearly as much ease and expedition as if the paging of that edition were preserved; which, it is obvious, would be perfectly impracticable, considering the valuable mass of new matter to be introduced.

It is computed, that the Eleven Volumes of the last edition of the STATE TRIALS will be comprized in Nine Volumes, of the New Edition, and that the Additional Matter to bring the Work down to the present time, will make three Volumes more. The whole work, therefore, will consist of Twelve large Volumes. The paper and print will be, in every respect, similar to those of the PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY. In the mode of publication only there will be this difference; that, while the HISTORY is published in Volumes, the TRIALS will be published in Parts, one Part coming out on the first day of every month, in the same manner as the magazines and other monthly publications. Three Parts will make a Volume, and it will be optional with the Subscribers, to take the Parts separately, or quarterly to take the Volumes done up boards, in a way exactly similar to that of the HISTORY.

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For me to pretend to undertake, unassisted, a Work of this sort, which, to execute well, requires the pen of a person not only possessed of great legal knowledge, but also