The history of the most remarkable tryals in Great Britain and Ireland, in capital cases : viz. heresy, treason, felony, incest, poisoning, adultery, rapes, sodomy, witchcraft, pyracy, murder, robbery, &c. : both by the unusual methods of ordeal, combat, and attainder, and by the ecclesiastical, civil and common laws of these realms : faithfully extracted from records, and other authentick authorities, as well manuscript as printed.

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