Browsing Trials and major cases






44 articles found

Headword Date Article Type
'Darnel's case' sees five imprisoned Englishmen plead for release 1627 Topics Short note
Bolingbroke is impeached 1715 Topics Short note
Britain forced to pay millions of dollars of damages to USA 1872 Topics Short note
Chief Justice Pratt discharges Wilkes 1763 Topics Short note
Court-martial and dismissal of Lord Torrington 1690 - 1690 Topics
Duke of Buckingham is impeached 1626 Topics Short note
Earl of Argyle is sentenced to death for treason 1681 Topics Short note
Emmeline Pankhurst sentenced 1913 Topics Short note
Enquiry into conduct of Mary Queen of Scots reopens at Westminster 1568 Topics Short note
Francis Bacon, the Lord Chancellor, is charged with corruption 1621 Topics Short note
Irish Land League is prosecuted 1880 Topics Short note
James II introduces Roman Catholics into the Church and army 1686 Topics Short note
John Lilburne imprisoned though he was not found guilty 1653 Topics Short note
John Lilburne put on trial for felony 1653 Topics Short note
Jonathan Wild is hanged at Tyburn 1725 Topics
Judge Jeffreys conducts the 'Bloody Assizes' 1685 Topics Short note
Legal ruling that any Scot born after 1603 is a subject of the King of England 1608 Topics Short note
Letters of Junius creators tried for seditious libel 1770 Topics Short note
Lord Finch, the Lord Keeper, is impeached by the Commons 1640 Topics Short note
Lord Stafford is tried for treason 1680 Topics Short note

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