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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
IT is owing to certain misrepresentations that the following charge is printed: although the Person who delivered it as a Magistrate could have wished to have avoided the submitting to strict perusal words spoke without preparation, on a sudden occasion, when he was requested by the rest of the Bench to attend on account of a prosecution of much consequence. It will however be a very great satisfaction if the publication may serve a general purpose, and keep up for the future in the minds of the inhabitants of this place, the ideas which were meant to be impressed concerning the submission due to the good government of the Laws in general, and the preservation of the most valuable Rights and Privileges to this University in particular.
page 414 note 1 This is noteworthy because a married woman was usually considered as a. femme covert = under the legal authority of her husband; even when they both committed an offence, she was considered as having obeyed the orders of her husband, therefore her responsibility was not so great as her husband's.
page 415 note 1 See for instance Addington, William, Abridgement of Penal Statutes, the 2nd ed.London: J. Whieldon, 1782. 756 pp.Google Scholar
page 415 note 2 Henry Bathurst, 1st Lord Apsley and 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1714–1794. By 1768 he was a Judge of the Common Pleas. He was made Lord Chancellor in 1771.
page 416 note 1 This is one of the cases where the magistrate insists on the importance of his Charge to the public in the court-room.
page 417 note 1 Sir John Eardley Wilmot 1709–92. In 1755 a judge of the King's Bench, CJ. of the Common Pleas, 1766–71.