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• The trial of James Whiting, John Parsons, and William Congreve : for a libel against the Hon. G.C. Berkeley, rear admiral of the Red, and one of the representatives in Parliament for the county of Gloucester; by a special jury, before the Right Hon. Lord Chief Baron Macdonald, in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, June 27th, 1804 (G.C. Berkeley] :, 1804), by George Cranfield Berkeley, Joseph Gurney, William Congreve, James Whiting, and Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, contrib. by John Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report of the trial of Cooper v. Wakley, for an alleged libel, taken by shorthand writers employed expressly for the occasion; with an engraving of the instruments, and the position of the patient. (Office of the Lancet, 1829), by Bransby Blake Cooper and Thomas Wakley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the trial of Mary-Anne Carlile (R. Carlile, 1821), by Mary Anne Carlile, Henry Cooper, Richard Carlile, Constitutional Association, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Achilli versus Dr. Newman. A full and impartial report of the trial of Achilli versus Newman in the court of Queen's bench, Westminster, before Lord Campbell and a special jury, on the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th June, 1852 (G. Peirce, 1852), by John Henry Newman and Giacinto Achilli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trial (at large) of the Rev. Henry Bate, with the previous proceedings, upon an information exhibited against him by His Grace the Duke of Richmond, for a libel. (G. Kearsly, 1780), by Henry Bate, Charles Lennox Richmond and Lennox, Joseph Gurney, and H. Bate Dudley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of libel, the King v. John Lambert and others, printer and proprietors of the Morning Chronicle: with the arguments of counsel, and decision of the court.... (Printed for J. Debrett, 1794), by John Lambert and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verbatim report of the trial of Noel Pemberton Billing, M.P. : on a charge of criminal libel before Mr. Justice Darling at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey : with report of the preliminary proceedings at Bow Street Police Court, an appendix of documents referred to in the case, reference index. &c. ('Vigilante' Office, 1918), by Noel Pemberton Billing and Maud Allan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The loss of the "City of Boston", Inman v. Jenkins an action for libel, tried at the Liverpool Assizes before Mr. Justice Lush and a special jury, on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 30th and 31st, 1870 (s.n.], 1870), by William Inman, Benjamin George Jenkins, and Lee and Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Fall Wilde und das Problem der Homosexualität (M. Spohr, 1901), by Oscar Wilde, Oskar Sero, Alfred Taylor, John Sholto Douglas Queensberry, and Great Britain. Central Criminal Court (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rex v. Russell : report of the trial of Sir Edward Russell, at the Liverpool Assizes for criminal libel in the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury", together with the proceedings on the application for a rule before the Divisional Court. (Daily Post and Mercury offices, 1905), by Edward Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The three trials of William Hone : for publishing three parodies, viz. The late John Wilkes's catechism, The political litany, and The sinecurist's creed : on three ex-officio informations, at Guildhall, London, during three successive days, December 18, 19, & 20, 1817 : before three special juries, and Mr. Justice Abbott, on the first day, and Mr. Chief Justice Ellenborough, on the last two days. (Printed by & for William Hone, 1818), by William Hone and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Authentick account of the proceedings against John Wilkes, Esq; Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, and late colonel of the Buckinghamshire militia. Containing all the papers relative to this interesting affair, from that gentleman's being taken into custody by His Majesty's messengers, to his discharge at the Court of Common Pleas. : With an abstract of that precious jewel of an Englishman, the Habeas Corpus Act. : Also the North Briton no. 45. Being the paper for which Mr. Wilkes was sent to the Tower. : Addressed to all lovers of liberty. ([Philadelphia] : London, printed. Philadelphia, re-printed: and to be sold by W. Dunlap, in Market-Street,, M,DCC,LXIII [1763]), by Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The trial of Daniel Isaac Eaton, for publishing a supposed libel comparing the King of England to a game cock in a pamphlet intituled Politics for the people; or Hog's wash at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey, February twenty-fourth, 1794. ([New York] : London, published. New-York reprinted for L. Wayland., 1794), by Daniel Isaac Eaton, King of Great Britain George III, William Ralph, and Great Britain. Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Junius : including letters by the same writer, under other signatures (now first collected) : to which are added his confidential correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall : with a preliminary essay, notes, facsimiles, &c. : in three volumes. (Printed by G. Woodfall for F.C. and J. Rivington; ... [et al.], 1814), by 18th cent Junius, John Mason Good, and John Wilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Trials with the defences at large of Mrs. Jane Carlile ... : being the persons who were prosecuted for selling the publications of Richard Carlile in his various shops. (Printed and published by R. Carlile, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trial of Thomas Paine (Printed at Boston, : by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street. Sold at their bookstore, by D. West, no. 36, Marlborough Street, and E. Larkin, Jun. no. 50, Cornhill., MDCCXCIII. [1793]), by Thomas Paine, Thomas Erskine, Archibald Macdonald, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (HTML at Evans TCP)

• An exact narrative of the tryal and condemnation of John Twyn for printing and dispersing of a treasonable book with the tryals of Thomas Brewster, bookseller, Simon Dover, printer, Nathan Brooks, bookbinder, for printing, publishing, and uttering of seditious, scandalous, and malitious pamphlets : at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, London, the 20th, and 22th of February, 1663/4. (London : Printed by Thomas Mabb for Henry Brome ..., 1664), by John Twyn, Thomas Brewster, Simon Dover, and Nathan Brooks (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Notes of the evidence given against the Lord Howard of Escrick to the grand inquest of the hundred of Edmonton and Gore in the county of Middlesex taken by Sir Charles Lee, their foreman, and agreed to by all the rest of the jury, who offered to subscribe their names as an acknowledgment of the truth of them. (London : Printed for S. Carr, 1681), by Charles Lee (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of Mr. Benjamin Leech, brick-layer at the Old-Baily, the fourteenth day of October, 1682. ([London?] : Printed for A. Green, [1682?]), by Benjamin Leech (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An account of the proceedings against Nathaniel Thomson, upon his tryal at the Kings Bench-Bar Westminster who was tryed, and found guilty on Wednesday the 26th of November 1684. for printing a dangerous and seditious libel, intitled the Prodigal return'd home, asserting the Popes supremacy in ecclesiastical affaires, &c. (London : printed for A. Banks, 1684), by Nathaniel Thompson and England and Wales. Court of King's Bench (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The proceedings and tryal in the case of the Most Reverend Father in God William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Right Reverend Fathers in God, William Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, John Lord Bishop of Chichester, Thomas Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Thomas Lord Bishop of Peterborough, and Jonathan Lord Bishop of Bristol. In the Court of Kings-Bench at Westminster, in Trinity-term in the fourth year of the reign of King James the Second, annoque Dom. 1688. Together with the learned arguments of the Honourable Mr. Finch, Sir Francis Pemberton, Sir Creswell Levins, Sir George Treby, Sir Robert Sawyer, Sir Henry Pollixfen, and Mr. Summers, against the dispencing power, &c. (London : printed for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet-street, and Thomas Fox, at the Angel in Westminster-Hall, 1689), by William Sancroft and England and Wales. Court of King's Bench (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Briefe relation of certain speciall and most materiall passages, and speeches in the Starre-Chamber, occasioned and delivered Iune the 14th. 1637. at the censure of those three worthy gentlemen, Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Burton and Mr. Prynne, as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes by one present at the sayd censure.. ([Amsterdam : J.F. Stam], Printed in the Yeere 1637.) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The trial of Wm. Winterbotham, assistant preacher at How's Lane meeting, Plymouth; before the Hon. Baron Perryn, and a special jury, at Exeter, on the 25th of July, 1793 for seditious words. (William Winterbotham, 1794), by William Winterbotham and Wm. Bowring (page images at HathiTrust)

• The genuine trial of Thomas Paine, for a libel contained in the second part of Rights of man : at Guildhall, London, Dec. 18, 1792, before Lord Kenyon and a special jury : together with the speeches at large of the attorney-general and Mr. Erskine, and authentic copies of Mr. Paine's letters to the attorney-general and others, on the subject of the prosecution (Printed for J.S. Jordan ..., 1793), by Thomas Paine, E. Hodgson, Thomas Erskine, Archibald Macdonald, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of the evidence given against the Lord Howard of Escrick : to the grand inquest of the hundred of Edmonton and Gore in the County of Middlesex : taken by Sir Charles Lee their foreman, and agreed to by all the rest of the jury who offered to subscribe their names in an acknowledgement of the truth of them. (Printed for S. Carr, 1681), by Charles Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The proceedings and tryal in the case of the most Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Right Reverend Fathers in God, William, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, Francis, Lord Bishop of Ely, John, Lord Bishop of Chichester, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Peterborough, and Jonathan, Lord Bishop of Bristol, in the Court of Kings-Bench at Westminster in Trinity-term in the fourth year of the reign of King James the Second, Annoque Dom. 1688. (London : Printed for Thomas Basset ... and Thomas Fox ..., 1689), by William Sancroft, William Lloyd, Francis Turner, John Lake, Thomas Ken, Thomas White, Jonathan Trelawny, and England and Wales. Court of King's Bench (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Account of the proceedings against Samuel Johnson, who was tryed at the Kings-Bench-Bar, Westminster, for high misdemeanour, and found guilty of writing and publishing two seditious and scandalous libels against the government on Monday, the 21th of June, 1686 (London : Printed for A.M., 1686) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Account of the proceedings at the Kings-Bench Bar at Westminster-Hall, against the seven bishops (London : Printed by George Croom ..., 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The whole of the proceedings at the Assizes at Shrewsbury, on Friday August the sixth, 1784, in the cause of the King on the prosecution of William Jones, attorney at law, against the Reverend William Davies Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph, for a libel : before the Honourable Francis Buller, Esq., one of the judges of His Majesty's Court of the King's Bench (Printed by H. Goldney, and sold by J. Johnson ... [and 3 others], 1784), by William Davies Shipley, William Jones, William Isaac Blanchard, and England) Great Britain. Assizes (Shropshire (page images at HathiTrust)

• The case of the Queen v. D'Israeli, with an argument in vindication of the practice of the bar (Richard Pheney, 1839), by Joseph Stammers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The proceedings at large in the Court of King's Bench, in the cause the King against Gorges Lowther, Esq. for a libel on John Thomas Batt, Esq. (J. Robbins, 1805), by Gorges Lowther (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper: Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father, by William Cooper (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Account of the proceedings at Westminster-Hall, on the 29th and 30th of June, 1688 relating to the tryal and discharge of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of S. Asaph, Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Ely, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Bishop of Peterborough, and the Bishop of Bristol. ([London : s.n.], 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The case of Mr. John Starkey he being one of the Grand Jury for the county Palatine of Chester, at the Grand Sessions or Assizes held for that county in anno 1683, did with Sir Thomas Grosvenor Bar. ([S.l. : s.n., 1685]), by Chester (England). Grand Jury (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of the Earl of Macclesfield, against Mr. John Starkey, who while be served as a jury-man, published a malicious libel against the said Earl and others, contrary to law, and all pretence of colours from the office of jury-man. ([London : s.n., 1685]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Judgment in the Case of David Irving vs. Penguin Books, Ltd. and Deborah Lipstadt, by Great Britain Royal Courts of Justice and Charles Gray (PDF at phdn.org)
• Malice Defeated: or, A Brief Relation of The Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, Wherein Her Proceedings Both Before and During Her Confinement are Particularly Related and The Mystery of The Meal-Tub Fully Discovered; Together With an Abstract of Her Arraignment and Tryal (London: Printed for E. Cellier, 1680), by Elizabeth Cellier (HTML at Michigan)
• The Tryal and Sentence of Elizabeth Cellier, For Writing, Printing, and Publishing, a Scandalous Libel, Called Malice Defeated, &c... (London: Printed for T. Collins, 1680), contrib. by Elizabeth Cellier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A report of the trial of the King v. John Hatchard : for a libel on the aides-de-camp of Sir James Leith ... and the Grand Jury of the island of Antigua, as published in the tenth report of the directors of the African Institution. In the Court of King's Bench, before Mr. Justice Abbott ... on February 20, 1817, together with Mr. Justice Bayley's address in pronouncing the sentence of the court (Printed for Whitmore and Fenn, 1817), by John Hatchard, John Bayley, Charles Abbott, James Leith, William Brodie Gurney, England) African Institution (London, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suppressed defence : the defence of Mary-Anne Carlile, to the Vice Society's indictment, against the Appendix to the theological works of Thomas Paine, which defence was suppressed by Mr. Justice Best, almost at its commencement, and, on the propriety of which suppression, the public, as the highest tribunal, is now appealed to and called upon to judge between the defendant, her prosecutors, and her judge, with a report of the proceedings before the defence was suppressed. (Printed and published by R. Carlile, 1821), by Mary Anne Carlile, England) Society for the Suppression of Vice (London, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tryal of Nathaniel Thompson, William Pain, and John Farwell. Upon an information exhibited by the Kings attorny general against them, for writing, printing and publishing libels, by way of letters and other prints, reflecting upon the justice of the nation, in the proceedings against the murderers of Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey. At Guild-hal on Tuesday June the 20th. 1682. where after a full hearing they were convicted. Together with an accompt of several affidavits read in His Majesties Court of Kings bench and other matters at the time of their receiving sentence. To which is added by way of Appendix, several other affidavits which further confirm the testimony of Mr. Prance, given upon the tryal of Green, Berry and Hill about that murder, with some observations touching the said Thompson, Farwell and Pain (T. Simmons, 1682), by Nathaniel Thompson, Miles Prance, John Farwell, William Paine, and England and Wales. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday, April 28, 1802 : before Mr. Justice Grose and a special jury of London merchants, in an action, brought by Charles Brooke, Wool-Broker, versus Henry Guy, clothier, for a libel (Printed for J.M. Coombs and sold by T. Hurst ..., 1802), by Charles Brooke, Joseph Gurney, Henry Guy, and Great Britain. Court of King's Bench (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trial of Elizabeth Cellier, the popish midwife, at the Old Baily, Septemb. 11, 1680, for printing and publishing the late notorious libel, intituled, Malice defeated, &c. (Printed by A. Godbid, for L.C., 1680), by Elizabeth Cellier and England and Wales. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A plain statement of facts, connected with the prosecution of the Rev. Thomas Hill, Methodist preacher : at the assizes, held in Newcastle, 9th Aug. 1822, on a charge of writing an anonymous letter, defaming the character of Miss Jane Bell, of North Shields : addressed to the Methodist preachers, assembled in conference, at Sheffield, in July, 1823. (J. Marshall, 1823), by Jane Bell and Thomas Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of trial of the issues, in the action of damages for libel in the Beacon, James Gibson of Ingliston, esq. clerk to the signet-pursuer, against Duncan Stevenson, printed in Edinburgh--defender. (A. Constable and co.; [etc., etc.], 1822), by James Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Report of the case John Dorrance against Arthur Fenner, tried at the December term, of the Court of common pleas, in the county of Providence, A.D. 1801; to which are added the proceedings in the case Arthur Fenner vs. John Dorrance. (Wheeler, 1802), by John Dorrance, Arthur Fenner, and Rhode Island. Court of Common Pleas (Providence County) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review, of the report of the case of the Commonwealth versus David Lee Child, for publishing in the Massachusetts Journal a libel on the honorable John Keyes. (J. H. Eastburn, Printer, 1829), by David Lee Child and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1903 : Fred L. Dorr and Edward F. O'Brien, plaintiffs in error, v. the United States : no. 583. In error to the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands ([Manila?, 1903), by United States, Lebbeus R. Wilfley, Edward F. O'Brien, Fred L. Dorr, Philippines. Supreme Court, and United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Address to the jury, at Kingston assizes, in the case of the King v. Robert Gourlay, for libel with a report of the trial, & c. &c. (Printed at the Gazette Office, 1818), by Robert Gourlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief of plaintiff and appellee (E.C. McCullough & Co., 1910), by Dean C. Worcester, Thomas L. Hartigan, W. A. Kincaid, and Martin Ocampo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fred Warren's defiance (C.H. Kerr, 1918), by Fred D. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorandum in support of defendant CBS's motion to dismiss and for summary judgment (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1984), by CBS Inc, Stuart W. Gold, David Boies, William C. Westmoreland, and United States. District Court. Southern District of New York (page images at HathiTrust)

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