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1784. Sessions. [Wednesday] Dec. 15.

the manner of Ordering the Execution. Sir Robert Chambers shewed me the part of Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries of the Law of England, in which Mr. Justice Blackstone observes that in London and Middlesex when the Trial has been at the Old Bailey, the Recorder of London signs a Warrant for the Execution. And when the Trial has been before the House of Lords, or in the Court of
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