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The Charge of Sir John Gonson Knt. to the Grand Jury of the Royalty of the Tower of London, and Liberties and Precincts thereof. At the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace for the said Royalty, &c. held the sixteenth Day of July 1728. at the Court-House on Great-Tower-Hill

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Printed at the Desire of the Justices of the Peaces for the said Royalty, and of the Grand Jury.

LONDON: Printed by Charles Ackers, in Great-Swan-Alley, St. John's -Street. MDCCXXVIII.

Turr & Libertat. Turr. London. } ss. Ad Generalem Quarterialem Sessionem Pacis Domini Regis tent' apud le Court-house super Towerhill magna infra Libertat' Turr' dicti Domini Regis London. Praedict' in & pro Libertat' Praedict' & Praecinct' ejusdem, Die Martis (scilicet Decimo Sexto Die Julii, Anno Regni Domini Georgii Secundi, nunc Regis Magnae Britanniae, &c. Secundo.

Whereas Sir John Gonson Knight, Chairman at this General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held for the Tower of London Liberties, and Precincts thereof, having this Day given to the Grand Jury, sworn at this present Sessions of the Peace, held for the said Liberty, a Loyal, Learned and Ingenious Charge, and tending much to the Promoting of Virtue and Religion; it is unanimously Agreed and Ordered by this Court, That the Thanks of this Court be, and the same are hereby given, to the said Sir John Gonson for such his Charge. And further, the Court desires, that he would be pleased to cause the same to be Printed.

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Camden Fourth Series , Volume 43: Charges to the Grandjury 1689–1803 , July 1992 , pp. 229 - 238
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1992

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References

page 231 note 1 The Spanish equivalent of the Parliament.

page 231 note 2 François Eudes de Mezeray (1610–83) wrote an Histoire de France (1643–51) then an Abrégé chronologique (1668).

page 231 note 3 John Hampden, 1594–1643, the famous parliamentary opponent of Charles I's arbitrary policy.

page 232 note 1 Such offences were tried by judges under commissions of Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery. They dealt with capital crimes, whereas the Q-S. magistrates could not inflict the capital penalty.

page 233 note 1 Most likely George II's proclamation dated 5 July 1727.

page 234 note 1 Burnet, G., The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hak, 1682 (3 eds.; transl, into French, 1689).Google Scholar