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A warning to judges and jurors on state trials; : being an abstract from an ancient Lilliputian chronicle; which shews how a chief justice was executed in virtue of his own conclusions, and how the Grand Vizir afterwards hanged himself in despair

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1795?]
Call number: 293167
Dimensions: (8vo)
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