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An account of the proceeding to sentence against Miles Prance, for vvilful perjury : who was sentenced in the Court of King's-Bench, Westminster : upon a conviction, by his own confession, on the 15th. of June 1686. : in wilfully forswearing himself at the tryals of Robert Green, Lawrence Hill, & Henry Berry, &c. in relation to the murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey.

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Main Author:	Prance, Miles, fl. 1678-1689
Corporate Author:	England and Wales. Court of King's Bench
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dublin : Re-printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham, assigns of Benjamin Tooke, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and are to be sold by Andrew Crook at His Majesties printing-house on Ormond-Key, and Samuel Helsham at the Colledge-Arms in Castle-Street, 1686.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Godfrey, Edmund Berry, > Sir, > 1621-1678 > Early works to 1800. Berry, Henry, > d. 1679 > Trials, litigation, etc. > Early works to 1800. Hill, Lawrence, > d. 1679 > Trials, litigation, etc. > Early works to 1800. Green, Robert, > d. 1679 > Trials, litigation, etc. > Early works to 1800. Prance, Miles, > fl. 1678-1689 > Trials, litigation, etc. > Early works to 1800. Trials (Perjury) > England > London > Early works to 1800. Popish Plot, 1678 > Early works to 1800. Great Britain > History > Charles II, 1660-1685 > Early works to 1800. Broadsides > England > 17th century.
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