GENERAL INDEX

TO THE

COLLECTION OF

STATE TRIALS

COMPILED BY

T. B. HOWELL, AND T. J. HOWELL, ESQRS.

BY DAVID JARDINE, Esq.

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

NOBIS IN ARCTO ET INGLORIUS LABOR.-Tacit. Annal. Lib. iv. cap. 32,

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN & GREEN; J. M. RICHARDSON; PARBURY,
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LIBRARY OF THE

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A. 43212.

AUG 27 1900

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ADVERTISEMENT.

IT has long been a subject of regret to all classes of Readers, and particularly to Members of the Legal Profession, that the mass of valuable information on legal and constitutional subjects contained in the State Trials should remain in a great measure inaccessible for want of a convenient Index. The General Index to Hargrave's State Trials, which was not compiled by the learned Editor of the work, is extremely imperfect, and full of inaccuracies; and even with the assistance of a Table of Parallel Reference, furnishes a very awkward and insufficient guide to the contents of the Octavo edition; besides which, the matter which is common to both editions forms little more than half of the contents of Howell's Collection. By the chronological arrangement of Howell's State Trials, a part of the inconvenience which applied to the earlier editions is removed; but it is obvious that there are innumerable points and circumstances, faintly remembered, and not associated in the mind with any date or time, which it is hopeless to attempt to find amongst three and thirty volumes of desultory matter, without the assistance of an Index.

Under these circumstances, it is hoped that no apology is necessary for offering to the Public a Work, upon which much time and labour have been employed, and which must be useful to some extent, even though imperfectly executed. It was originally intended to form a Digest, or Abstract, of the State Trials, with Notes and Illustrations of a merely professional character, with a view of rendering more practically useful the information on legal subjects which the work contains; but the appearance of Mr. Phillipps's excellent Book, upon a somewhat similar, though less comprehensive plan, with other considerations, induced the Compiler to abandon that intention, and to restrict his undertaking to the formation of an Index. It has been

considered that the object of an Index, namely, that of furnishing a ready means of reference to the contents of the work, would be best attained by the simplest method of arrangement, and that any artificial analysis would be altogether inapplicable to the State Trials; this Compilation, therefore, merely consists of two Tables, alphabetically arranged; the first being a Table of Names, with a short abstract, under each name, of the contents of the work, so far as they relate to the individual to whom the name belongs, and a reference to the passages in which he is mentioned: the second being a Table of Principal Matters, containing references to the leading subjects, as well as the points of law, arguments, and other circumstances, incidentally mentioned throughout the whole Collection. The heads of reference in both these Tables have been made as numerous and particular as possible, in order to afford a large number of such points as may most probably occur to the memory of the Reader, and by which he may be guided directly to the object of his search. A Table of Parallel Reference has been added, for the purpose of rendering the Index applicable to Hargrave's State Trials, as well as to the Octavo Edition. This Table is the converse of that which is given in the twenty-first Volume of the Work; the one containing a reference from the Folio edition to the Octavo, and the other a reference from the Octavo to the Folio.

It may be necessary to explain to the Reader, that as it frequently happens that eminent and remarkable Characters are mentioned in the State Trials, as having been present on particular trials or occasions, without their having taken any prominent part in the proceedings, it has been thought proper to refer to them in the Index of Names, with their description as Judges, Serjeants, Counsel, &c. and the date of the transactions in which their names occur.

GENERAL

GENERAL INDEX

TO THE

STATE TRIALS.

PART I.-NAMES.