A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, 第 20 巻Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816 |
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