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The trial of James Hill : commonly called John the Painter, at the castle of Winchester, on Thursday the 6th day of March, 1777, before the Hon. Sir Beaumont Hotham, Knt., for wilfully and maliciously setting fire to a certain building called the Rope-House, in His Majesty'sdock-yard at Portsmouth
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Treason)--Great Britain.
- Trials (Treason).
- Trials (Arson)--Great Britain.
- Trials (Arson).
- Physical Description:
- 31 p. ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Winton [i.e. Winchester, England] : Printed by J. Wilkes : Sold by S. Crowder, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, Pater-Noster-Row, and T. Evans in the Strand, London, [1777]
- Notes:
- Trial of James Aitken for an attempt to burn the naval stores and shipping at Portsmouth, in the interest of the American revolutionists.
- Low reduction.
- "To which is added the particulars of his confession, taken down from his own mouth by Sir John Fielding's clerk, the morning after his condemnation."
- Cited in:
- ESTC T084675.
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