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• Celebrated Trials and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence, From the Earliest Records to the Year 1825 (6 volumes; London: Knight and Lacey, 1825), ed. by George Borrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• State Trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain William Kidd (published under "Charles Edward Lloyd" pseudonym; Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1899), by Carrie J. Harris
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• The Newgate Calendar, ed. by Donal O'Danachair (HTML at Ex-Classics)
• Select speeches, forensick and parliamentary, with prefatory remarks. (Hopkins and Earle, 1807), by Nathaniel Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq. With a brief sketch of the history of Ireland; and a biographical account of Mr. Curran. (I. Riley, 1811), by John Philpot Curran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carson, the advocate (The Macmillan company, 1932), by Edward Marjoribanks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of John Philpot Curran : while at the bar. (Callaghan & company, 1872), by John Philpot Curran and James Anson Lawrence Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Lord Campbell : at the bar, and in the House of Commons : with an address to the Irish bar as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. (A. and C. Black, 1842), by Baron John Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Complete Newgate calendar; being Captain Charles Johnson's General history of the lives and adventures of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers and account of the voyages and plunders of the most notorious pyrates, 1734; Captain Alexander Smith's Compleat history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highwaymen, foot-pads, shop-lifts and cheats, 1719; The Tyburn chronicle, 1768; The malefactors' register, 1796; George Borrow's Celebrated trials, 1825; The Newgate calendar, by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, 1826; Camden Pelham's Chronicles of crime, 1841; etc. (Privately printed for the Navarre Society limited, 1926), by G. T. Crook, John L. Rayner, Camden Pelham, Andrew Knapp, George Borrow, Alexander Smith, and Charles Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• State trials of the reign of Edward the First, 1289-1293 (Royal historical society, 1906), by T. F. Tout and Hilda Johnstone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A catalogue of Star chamber proceedings relating to Wales (University Press Board, 1929), by Ifan Ab Owen Edwards, Great Britain Public Record Office, and England and Wales. Court of Star Chamber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Crimes in high life : some society causes célèbres (Dodd, Mead & company, 1927), by Horace Wyndham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The procession to Tyburn: crime and punishment in the eighteenth century. (Boni and Liveright, 1927), by William McAdoo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Newgate calendar (Garden City Publishing Co., 1928), by Andrew Knapp, Henry Savage, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, and William Lee Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judicial puzzles, gathered from the state trials (S. Whitney, 1876), by John Paget (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete collection of state-trials, and proceedings for high-treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours. (Printed for the undertakers, J. Walthoe sen. and jun., T. Wotton [etc.], 1742), by Sollom Emlyn and Sollom Emlyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• State trials, political and social (Duckworth;, 1899), by Harry Lushington Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern state trials : Revised and illustrated with essays and notes (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850), by William C. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of cases from the state trials (University Press, 1879), by J. W. Willis Bund (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall (V. Gollancz, 1929), by Edward Marjoribanks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous trials re-told : some society causes célèbres (Hutchison, [1925], 1925), by Horace Wyndham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Murder, piracy and treason ; a selection of notable English trials (J. Cape, 1925), by Raymond Postgate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of proceedings under commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, for the county of York, before Sir Alexander Thomson ... and Sir Simon Le Blanc..from the 2d to the 12th of January, 1813 (Printed by L. Hansard and sons, 1813), by Great Britain. Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery and William Brodie Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The judges and the judged (Dodd, Mead, 1926), by Charles Kingston (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the defence; the life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall (The Macmillan company, 1932), by Edward Marjoribanks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous trials of history (Garden city publishing co., 1926), by Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the defence; the life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall (The Macmillan Company, 1929), by Edward Marjoribanks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Westminister hall; a collection of interesting incidents, anecdotes and historical sketches, relating to Westminster hall, its famous judges and lawyers and its great trials (Estes, 1874), by Edward Foss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete Newgate calendar : being Captain Charles Johnson's General history of the lives and adventures of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers and account of the voyages and plunders of the most notorious pyrates, 1734 ... etc. (Privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1925), by John L. Rayner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous trials of history (G.H. Doran Co., 1926), by Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of remarkable trials and notorious characters. From "Half-hanged Smith," 1700-to Oxford who shot at the Queen, 1840... (Reeves and Turner, 1876), by Lionel Benson and Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some famous medical trials (C. Scribner's Sons, 1928), by Leonard A. Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guilty or not guilty? stories of celebrated crimes (S. Paul & co., ltd., 1928), by Guy B. H. Logan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Celebrated trials and remarkable cases of criminal jurisprudence from the earliest records to the year 1825 (J. Cape, 1928), by Edward Hale Bierstadt and George Henry Borrow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Newgate calendar improved; being interesting memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England, during the seventeenth century; and continued to the present time, chronologically arranged. (T. Kelly & Co., 1800), by George Theodore Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• State trials, political and social (Duckworth and Co., 1899), by Harry Lushington Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some distinguished victims of the scaffold (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1905), by Horace Bleackley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran ... on the late very interesting state trials. (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ..., 1815), by John Philpot Curran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romantic trials of three centuries (J. Lane;, 1913), by Hugh Robert Eardley Childers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Speeches of Lord Erskine, while at the bar. (Callaghan, 1876), by Thomas Erskine and James L. High (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new & complete Newgate calendar; or, Villany displayed in all its branches. Containing accounts of the most notorious malefactors from the year 1700 to the present time. (A. Hogg, 1795), by William Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survivors' tales of famous crimes (Cassell, 1916), by Walter Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Newgate calendar, Comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England since the commencement of the eighteenth century; with occasional anecdotes and observations, speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers. (J. Robins and co., 1824), by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of the most remarkable and interesting trials. Particularly of those persons who have forfeited their lives to the injured laws of their country. (Printed for R. Snagg, 1775) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradoxes and puzzles, historical, judicial, and literary (Blackwood and sons, 1874), by John Paget (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Criminal trials. (Nattali & Bond, 1835), by David Jardine, Walter Raleigh, Henry Wriothesley Southampton, Robert Devereux Essex, William Parry, Thomas Howard Norfolk, Nicholas Throckmorton, and Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speeches of the Right Hon. Lord Erskine : at the bar and in parliament (Ridgway, 1847), by Thomas Erskine and Lord Brougham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Lord Erskine, while at the bar (Callaghan and Cockroft, 1870), by Thomas Erskine and James Lambert High (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of proceedings under commissions of Oyer & Terminer and Gaol Delivery, for the county of York, held at the castle of York before Sir Alexander Thomson ... and Sir Simon Le Blanc ... from the 2d to the 12th of January 1813. From the short hand notes of Mr. Gurney. To which are subjoined two proclamations, issued in consequence of the result of those proceedings. (Printed by L. Hansard, 1813), by Great Britain. Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, John Swallow, Joseph Gurney, Simon Le Blanc, and Alexander Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narratives, scenes, and anecdotes from courts of justice (Cornish, Lamport & Co., 1853), by Peter Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narratives of state trials in the nineteenth century : First period : From the union with Ireland to the death of George the Fourth, 1801-1830 (Houghton Mifflin, and Co., 1882), by G. Lathom Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A general history of the lives, trials, and executions of all the royal and noble personages, that have suffered in Great-Britain and Ireland for high treason, or other crimes : from the accession of Henry VIII. to the throne of England, down to the present time : with a circumstantial narrative of their behaviour during confinement, and at the place of execution : to which is added, a particular account of the rebellions in England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the two last centuries : compiled ... from the best histories, and most authentic memoirs (Printed for J. Burd..., 1760), by Delahay Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• State trials (W. Walker, 1826), by S. M. Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of state trials. New series... 1820 to [1858]... (Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen, 1888), by Great Britain. State Trials Committee, John E. P. Wallis, and John Macdonell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of remarkable trials and notorious characters. From "Half-hanged Smith," 1700-to Oxford who shot at the Queen, 1840... (J. C. Hotten, 1871), by Lionel Benson and Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notable trials : romances of the law courts (Cassell, 1906), by R. Storry Deans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The New Newgate calendar : or, Malefactor's bloody register : containing authentic and circumstantial accounts of the lives transactions, exploits, trials, executions, dying speeches, confessions, and other curious particulars, relating to all the most notoriuos criminals (of both sexes) and violators of the laws of their country, who have sufered death and other exemplary punishments, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the commencement of the year 1700, to the present time. (Alex Hogg, 1773) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Case of the seizure of the southern envoys. Talbot collection of British pamphlets (James Ridgeway, Piccadilly, W., 1861), by English Royal West India Mail (Steamer) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of remarkable and interesting criminal trials, actions at law, &c. : To which is prefixed, an essay on reprieve and pardon, and biographical sketches of John lord Eldon, and Mr. Mingay /c By W. M. Medland and Charles Weobly. (Printed by J. D. Dewick, for J. Badcock, 1803), by W. M. Medland, C. H., and Charles Weobly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal trials, supplying copious illustrations of the important periods of English history during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I.; to which is added a narrative of the gunpowder plot, with historical prefaces and notes. (Nattali and Bond, 1850), by David Jardine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramas of the dock : true stories of crime (S. Paul, 1928), by Guy B. H. Logan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Society sensations (E. P. Dutton & company, 1922), by Charles Kingston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors ... : with notes and other illustrations (printed by T.C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.], 1816), by Francis Hargrave, Sollom Emlyn, Thomas Salmon, David Jardine, William Cobbett, Thomas Jones Howell, and Thomas Bayly Howell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches, while at the bar (Callaghan, 1872), by John Philpot Curran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Society sensations (E. P. Dutton & company, 1922), by Charles Kingston (page images at HathiTrust)
• York assizes. (Printed by L. Hansard & sons, 1813), by Great Britain. Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, John Swallow, Gurney, Simon Le Blanc, and Alexander Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Newgate calendar : or, Malefactor's bloody register : containing genuine and circumstantial narratives of the lives and transactions, various exploits and dying speeches of the most notorious criminals of both sexes, who suffered death, and other punishments in Great Britain and Ireland from the year 1700, to the present time. (Printed for J. Cooke, 1700) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous trials of the century (G. Richards, 1899), by J. B. Atlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives and criminal trials of celebrated men. ([s.n.], 1835), by David Jardine, Walter Raleigh, Henry Wriothesley Southampton, Robert Devereux Essex, William Parry, Thomas Howard Norfolk, and Nicholas Throckmorton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of John Philpot Curran, esq., with the speeches of Grattan, Erskine and Burke. (Published by Isaac Riley, 1809), by John Philpot Curran, Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine, and Henry Grattan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narratives of state trials in the nineteenth century. First period. From the union with Ireland to the death of George the Fourth, 1801-1830. (S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882), by G. Lathom Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Richard Muir, the memoirs of a public prosecutor; intimate revelations compiled from the papers of Sir Richard Muir, late senior counsel to the British Treasury (John Lane, 1926), by Sidney Theodore Felstead and Mary Beatrice Leycester Muir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bartholoman's complete law reports of all the trials and causes that came on at the Yorkshire Lent assize, March 9, 1811, before, the Honourable Sir Alexander Thomson ... and the Honourable Sir Simon Le Blanc ... (Printed by and for A. Bartholoman, 1811), by Alexander Bartholoman, John Payne Collier, Michael Ellis, and Great Britain. Courts of Assize and Nisi Prius (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Complete collection of state-trials, and proceedings for high-treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours. (Printed by T. Wright, for C. Bathurst [etc.] and sold by G. Kearsly, 1776), by Sollom Emlyn, Thomas Salmon, and Francis Hargrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the proceedings of the first and second trials of the cause of Fisher against Ward, master of the ship Fishburn : which was detained in Russia during the late embargo on British ships, with the arguments of counsel, on the special case reserved for the opinion of the Court of Common Pleas, respecting the wages claimed by the British seamen, during the time they were detained in Russia and an appendix. (Printed by John Abraham, 1803), by John Andrew Fisher and Abraham Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the most remarkable tryals in Great Britain and Ireland, in capital cases ... 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. (Printed for A. Bell [etc.], 1715) (page images at HathiTrust)
• State trials (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1811), by William Cobbett, David Jardine, Thomas Jones Howell, and Thomas Bayly Howell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some famous medical trials (J. & A. Churchill, 1927), by Leonard A. Parry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Trials]. ([London], 1679) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous judges and famous trials (Brentano's, 1923), by Charles Kingston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report of some proceedings on the commission of Oyer and terminer and goal delivery for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746 in the county of Surry (At the Clarendon Press, 1762), by Michael Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Westminster hall : a collection of interesting incidents, anecdotes and historical sketches, relating to Westminister Hall, its famous judges and lawyers and its great trials (J. Cockcroft, 1874), by Benno Loewy and Edward Foss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete collection of state trials, and proceedings for high-treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours (Printed for J. Walthoe sen. [etc.], 1730), by Sollom Emlyn and Thomas Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• State trials, Howell's (W.S. Hein, 2000), by William Cobbett, David Jardine, Thomas Jones Howell, and Thomas Bayly Howell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prisoners of the Tower of London; being an account of some who at divers times lay captive within its walls (J. M. Dent & co., 1899), by Violet Brooke-Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of state trials, new series (Professional Books, 1970), by Great Britain. State Trials Committee, John E. P. Wallis, and John Macdonell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Select trials for murder, robbery, burglary, rapes, sodomy, coining, forgery, pyracy, and other offences and misdemeanours, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey : to which are added genuine accounts of the lives, exploits, behaviour, confessions, and dying-speeches, of the most notorious convicts, from the year 1741 to the present year, 1764, inclusive, which completes the trials from the year 1720 (Printed for J. Wilkie, 1764), by Great Britain. Central Criminal Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, Malefactor's bloody register. (A. Hogg, 1800), by William Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal trials... (M. A. Nattali, 1846), by David Jardine, Walter Raleigh, Henry Wriothesley Southampton, Robert Devereux Essex, William Parry, Thomas Howard Norfolk, and Nicholas Throckmorton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celebrated trials connected with the aristocracy in the relations of private life (William Benning, 1849), by Peter Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of the court room (H. Dayton, 1860), by Peter Burke and Samuel Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der britische Pitaval : englische Staatsprozesse der letzten Jahrzehnte. (Verlags-Comptoir, 1851), by William C. Townsend and Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report of the cases of the King vs. Wright, and the King vs. De Yonge, who were severally tried for exchanging guineas for bank notes. To which is added a copy of the act of Parliament, 51 Geo. III. c. 127. relative to this subject. (Printed by A. Strahan, 1811), by John King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Newgate Calendar; or, Malefactor's bloody register. Containing authentic and circumstantial accounts of the lives, transactions, exploits, trails, executions, dying speeches, confessions, and other curious particulars relating to all the most notorious criminals (of both sexes) and violaters of the Laws of their country; who have suffered death, and other exemplary punishments, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the commencement of the year 1700, to the present time ... (Printed, by authority, only for A. Hogg, 1770), by Andrew Knapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of state-trials and proceedings, upon high-treason, and other crimes and misdemeanours, from the reign of King Edward VI. to the present time : the seventh[-eighth] volumes[s] : with an alphabetical table to the two supplemental volumes. (Printed for B. Motte and C. Bathurst, 1735), by Sollom Emlyn and Thomas Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradoxes and puzzles, historical, judicial, and literary (AMS Press, 1977), by John Paget (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Westminster Hall (G.W. Smith, 1874), by Edward Foss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Thomas lord Erskine. (Reeves & Turner, 1880), by Thomas Erskine, James Ridgway, and Edward Walford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Lord Erskine, while at the bar (Callaghan and Cockroft, 1871), by Thomas Erskine and James L. High (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal chronology, or, the new Newgate calendar (J. Robins and Co. ;, 1826), by Andrew Knapp and W. B. (William Baldwin) (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)
• Prisoners of the Tower of London : being an account of some who at divers times lay captive within its walls (E. P. Dutton & Co. ;, 1901), by Violet Brooke-Hunt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• State trials. (Printed for William Mears [etc], 1735), by Thomas Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the limbo of the past : famous fights for English liberty. (South China Morning Post, 1916), by J. Scott Harston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Speeches of John Philpot Curran while at the bar (Callaghan & Co., 1872), by John Philpot Curran and James A. L. Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Newgate calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England. (Conn., E. V. Mitchell, 1926), by Andrew Knapp, Henry Savage, and William Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Judicial dramas : some society causes célèbres (T. Fisher Unwin, 1927), by Horace Wyndham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Tichborne case (W. Hodge, 1916), by J. B. Atlay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• William Digby Seymour, the Middle Temple benchers, and the Northern circuit committee. (W.H. Cox, 1862), by William Digby Seymour and William Digby Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous criminals and their trials, intimate revelations compiled from the papers of Sir Richard Muir, late senior counsel to the British Treasury. (George H. Doran company, 1926), by Sidney Theodore Felstead and Mary Beatrice Leycester Muir (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of remarkable trials and notorious characters. From "Half-hanged Smith," 1700-to Oxford who shot at the Queen, 1840 ... (J. C. Hotten, 1874), by Lionel Benson and Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Newgate calendar, Comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England since the commencement of the eighteenth century; with occasional anecdotes and observations, speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers. (J. Robins and Co., 1824), by Andrew Knapp and William Lee Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• State trials, political and social (Duckworth and Co., 1899), by Harry Lushington Stephen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold, by Horace Bleackley (Gutenberg ebook)
• State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2), ed. by Harry Lushington Stephen (Gutenberg ebook)
• State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 1 (of 2), ed. by Harry Lushington Stephen (Gutenberg ebook)

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