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13-252033

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE ΤΟ THE TRIAL OF THE QUEEN-AND CHARACTER OF WITNESSESTABULAR ANALYSIS OF TRIAL-AND ULTERIOR PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS TO THE WITHDRAWMENT OF THE BILL OF PAINS AND PENALTIES PRIVATE HISTORY OF HER MAJESTY TO THAT PERIOD.

THE trial of the Queen for alleged adultery was the most important event in her life, whether her personal interest was considered, or the effects which such a measure must necessarily produce on the laws and liberties of the country. Reports of of the trial, professedly verbatim, have been published by various persons, and it would be mere book-making to transcribe them into the present work. An Analysis of the trial will be hereafter presented, which will contain the substance of the charges and defence, in a perspicuous and tabular arrangement. The first column will include the charges brought against the Queen, nearly the whole of which are from the Attorney-General's speech, and as much as possible in his own words. In the second column the names of the witnesses who supported these charges will be inserted, and the variations between the statement of the AttorneyGeneral and the evidence brought to support it, will be noticed. Any important additions to the original charges which appeared in the evidence

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