(blogger is making the links look like this, and i cant seem to fit the html to look like i want it to)
anyways the above sight has all sorts of exciting transcripts from british trials in the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries--fasc. stories of debauchary, and luridness--they have a grave poetry to them sometimes.
ie:
William Mayly alias, Mayberry was indicted for attempting to commit the detestable Sin of Sodomy upon the Body of David Thomas : But Thomas resisting to be sworn to give Evidence, (tho' he had accus'd the Prisoner before) Mayly was acquitted, and he committed by Court ...
(there is a story in that lacunae)
orSarah Ghoste of Crutchet Fryars was Tryed for speaking contemptuous and reproachful words against our most Gracious King William III of England &c. saying, That King William was the Son of an Whore.
or... One John Morgan was Indicted on the Statute, for that being born a Subject of England, and having received Orders fromthe See of Rome, yet he came into and remained in England. There was very good Evidence that proved he was a Priest ... , so now at Bar he freely Confest that he was a Priest ...
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