The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.
Court of Queen's Bench
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Edmund Curll | Edmund Curll
was fined at the Court of King's Bench
for his pornographic publications, and stood, according to his sentence, in the pillory. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | After this she was summoned to the King's Bench
with a warrant for her committal to the Tower of London. She mounted her own legal defence, and was released. Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 8, 181 Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, pp. 183-75. 259 |
politics | Elinor James | Rosewell was tried at the Court of King's Bench
for high treason. EJ
visited him in prison, then went to the king (who according to her own account received her like a familiar friend). Rosewell's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Masterman Skinn | She, it appears, had petitioned first, alleging his impotence and cruelty. Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, pp. 169-85. 179 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Squire | Her father, Robert Squire
, from a royalist Yorkshire family, was a lawyer who owned property including valuable lead and alum mines. In 1702-4 he conducted a lawsuit over ownership of some lead mines with... |
Timeline
20 April 1769: In Millar vs. Taylor the Court of King's...
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20 April 1769
In Millar vs. Taylor the Court of King's Bench
confirmed the continuing existence of perpetual copyright: a decision overturned five years later by Donaldson vs. Becket.
1800: The Court of King's Bench upheld a father's...
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1800
The Court of King's Bench
upheld a father's custody rights in the case of a French emigré named De Manneville, whose English wife had left him, taking their only child.
6 March 1812: Daniel Isaac Eaton was tried in the Court...
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6 March 1812
Daniel Isaac Eaton
was tried in the Court of King's Bench
for publishing the final part of Thomas Paine
's Age of Reason.
19 September 1830: The Weekly Dispatch printed an item about...
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19 September 1830
The Weekly Dispatch printed an item about the Duke of Brunswick (Friedrich Herzog von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel)
, which left a lasting mark on British libel laws.
March 1860: John Anderson, a former slave who had fled...
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March 1860
John Anderson
, a former slave who had fled from Missouri to Canada in 1853, was recognised and arrested at Windsor, Ontario, for killing a man during his escape. He applied for habeas corpus...
19 March 1891: The ruling in R. v Jackson established that...
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19 March 1891
The ruling in R. v Jackson established that it was illegal in Britain for a husband to beat or imprison his wife.
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