...indictment had charged me (God knows how untruly !) with having taken the purse " with force and arms, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity." Had it, as I am informed, only said something about a "statute made and provided," I, who never used...

..."an evildisposed person, who, being instigated by the devil, did take, steal, and carry away himself, against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his Crown, and dignity." Your Lordships may suppose that punishments for such acts never can occur in the colonies. The answer...

...followers, and proceeds to assuit his pretensions by a tliew of force. This sort of conduct being somewhat against the peace of our sovereign lord the king, his crown and dignity, the British magistrate causes the " pretender," as he is called by the reigning potentate, to be seized...

...great Encouragement of enormous Offenders, • contrary, as we conceive, to the Laws of our Country; the : Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity, 1 and particularly to the Welfare of this Your Colony. ' THAT the said Causton did greatly discourage...

...againit tin: authority of tMr lawful marten, maaageri, axil overteert,] contrary to his allegiance, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his Crown and dignity. 2. For that he, the said John Smith, having, about the 17th day of August last, and [at divert other...

...malice, then and there feloniously killed and murdered the said Richard Hun in manner and form abovesaid, against the peace of our sovereign lord the king, his crown and dignity. Subscribed in this manner : Thomas Barawell, Coroner of the city of London. After that the twenty-four...

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...Ralph, of murder and sacrilege, now, or of late, done and committed by you, the said Ralph, contrary to the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity : and I do hereby require and charge you, the said Ralph, to forthwith surrender and give up your own...

...were said to be committed against their ' peace, sword and dignity,' — and not, as in later ages, ' against the peace of our sovereign lord the king, his crown and dignity.' In the reign of Henry VIII the privileges of the county palatine were abridged, and all writs and processes...

...dwelling-house and office of one Sampson Brass, gentleman, one Bank Note for Five Pounds issued by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England ; in contravention...Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity. To this indictment, Christopher Nubbles,...