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At the proposal of Chief-justice John Finch he was also to be branded on the cheeks with the letters S.
AS SEEN ON TV: WILLIAM PRYNNE Toby O'B 2009
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At the proposal of Chief-justice John Finch he was also to be branded on the cheeks with the letters S.
Archive 2009-11-29 Toby O'B 2009
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The young _roué_ became a leading lawyer, and finally attained the rank of Chief-justice of the Common Pleas.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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A greater than Gresham succeeded, after the death of his widow, to the occupancy of Osterley -- Chief-justice Coke.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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In every knapsack there is the Marshal's baton, the career is open to the talent-a man is what he makes himself-the barber's apprentice may become the Chief-justice of England, the farmer's son or the stone-mason, the Prime Minister of Canada.
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Out of a multitude of events which might be brought forward to prove this fact, one of the best authenticated, and the most striking, is his submission to Chief-justice Gascoigne.
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Such was the attitude of men like Lord Chief-justice Mansfield, who spoke on the subject in the House of Lords.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890
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Chief-justice Kenyon threatened the pillory, and Gillray expressed and stimulated public opinion by a caricature representing two of "Faro's daughters" in that position.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886
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Chief-justice Mansfield in the case of Almon, a bookseller, who was tried on an _ex officio_ indictment for selling Junius's _Letter to the
The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886
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His cousin, the Chief-justice, made a signal with his hat, and one by one the sitters stole out into the square noiselessly, and went their ways, leaving the young man playing on, with the negro child at his knee, leaning there as if to spy out the living voice in his violin.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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