Book/Printed Material Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench in Westminster-Hall on what is commonly called the Negroe-cause / by a Planter
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Image 1 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … CANDID REFLECTIONS Upon the JUDGEMENT lately awarded by THE COURT OF KING's BENCH, IN WESTMINSTER-HALL, On what is commonly called THE NEGROE-CAUSE, BY A PLANTER. “Misera est servitus ubi jus est vagum…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 2 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench …- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 3 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … iii ADVERTISEMENT. THE invention of printing (if I mistake not) has been ascribed to a soldier , of gunpowder to a priest ; perhaps the longitude may be discovered by a taylor…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 4 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … iv once was among the porter-swilling swains of St. Giles'. —But hold; as I am about to engage in a conference with divers grave sages of the law, it becomes me to…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 5 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 1 CANDID REFLECTIONS, &c. SECT. I. THE cause of Somerset a Negroe, lately adjudged upon in the Court of King's Bench , was so far from giving any disgust to the West…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 6 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 2 sentiments of some other men of unquestioned ability and skill in the law, who formerly exercised judicial offices with the highest reputation for their knowledge, a more precise and full explication…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 7 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 3 not entitled to a remedy by Habeas Corpus in the unlimited sense now declared; to shew that they are not culpable for having in several instances sought to repossess their fugitive…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 8 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 4 it could not be laid aside without absolute loss of great part of that trade, and of those national emoluments, the prospect of which first gave birth to it. As our…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 9 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 5 Magna Charta , and the subsequent statutes passed in confirmation of this Great Charter to villeins. In ancient times were many efforts made towards liberty; but they were only struggles between…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 10 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 6 thus describes its grants: “Whereas it is “contained in the Grand Charter of the “franchises of England, that none shall be “imprisoned, nor put out of his freehold, “nor free custom,…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 11 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 7 much the same as before, and in point of severity not at all mitigated. A statute passed in his twenty-fifth year directs, “That Villenage “may be pleaded, and the body of…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 12 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 8 so successfully to obtain a fresh confirmation of them in 1628 from Charles the First , and which he reluctantly granted in answer to the Commons petition of right in that…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 13 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 9 till the prior gave his reason, that he refused to be bailiff of his manor ; and this satisfied the judges. The second case was 33 d Edw. III. occurring many…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 14 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 10 or taken, or imprisoned, & c. without “ due process of law ; nevertheless, against “the tenor of these and other good laws and “statutes of the realm, divers subjects had…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 15 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 11 that his body might not be kept in a lingering, rigorous, and cruel confinement in prison, there tabescere et macescere , whereby the state would be deprived of all benefit from…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 16 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 12 were to prevent illegal imprisonment; or, in other words, an imprisonment without some cause shewn and expressed. The twelfth section, which applies more particularly to the case now under consideration, expressly…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 17 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 13 is no reason to believe, that Negroe-slaves belonging to our Plantations, were then considered as subjects of the realm of England ; so it does by no means clearly appear, that…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 18 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 14 the soil there, by any other than Negroe labourers, as it was first the occasion of employing them, so it must ever remain, as long as our colonies exist; because, this…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 19 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 15 want of adequate culture; or otherwise, they would, in all likelihood, have been destitute of any vegetable crops for their support: yet fewer hands were at that time required to cultivate…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 20 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 16 “them to desist from this dangerous work; “the captain, and eleven out of his twelve “assistants, being seized with violent fevers, “of which several died. The Ludlow-Castle , “a ship of…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 21 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 17 “Negroes on the coast of Guiney can be “justified, it must be from the absolute necessity “there is for employing them, instead “of white persons, in such services as these.” To…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 22 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 18 up, and hoeing the ground, in the manner proper for cane-planting, and under a full exposure to the sun, is no less impracticable to Europeans, whether seasoned or unseasoned to the…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 23 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 19 and use, to the laborious occupations of husbandry, and forming new settlements with their own hands: But, unless families in general were poorer, hindered by their necessities from removing to Europe,…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 24 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 20 grow up, and thrive, in the like rapid manner as we observe of the North Americans. Most certain it is, that, without the introduction of Negroe slaves, Great Britain would have…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 25 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 21 the administration of Colonel D'oyley , long before the establishment of sugar works in Jamaica , that the officers of his army harassed and destroyed the common soldiers (though well seasoned…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 26 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 22 engaged in it. In the year 1553, three English ships traded to the coast for gold, and one only returned home safe. In the following years some other voyages were made;…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 27 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 23 with what they wanted. In 1585 and 1588, queen Elizabeth granted two patents, to a body of rich merchants; the one for an exclusive trade to the coast of Barbary ,…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 28 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 24 annually. But their affairs were so disarranged by heavy losses, sustained in our war with Holland , that in 1672, another corporation was instituted, called the Royal African Company, which subsisted…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 29 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 25 “depending;” it provides for the erection of forts and castles on the coast, for better preservation, and carrying it on; and repeals the duty of 10 l. per cent. ad valorem…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 30 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 26 Utrecht , 1713, a contract was formed, for introducing into the Spanish West Indies, no less than 4800 Negroes annually, for thirty years to come. In 1726, 13 George I. the…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 31 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 27 “acts of parliament, or one of them. Be it “therefore enacted, & c. ” The same act restricted the Company to four annual ships, which were to carry out nothing but…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 32 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 28 their goods and slaves ; that no master of any ship shall, by force or fraud , carry away any Negroe native of the country, or commit any violence to the…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 33 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 29 and except that it shall not be lawful for any of the officers or servants employed by the committee of the said Company, to export Negroes from Africa upon their own…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 34 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 30 to stand incontestably built upon, and agreeable to, the general sense of the people, and the laws of the kingdom. I shall further prove this by still later statutes. For the…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 35 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 31 over our plantation Negroes; declaring them amenable to the Sovereign for his duties of revenue, and to the subject for commercial dues. It declares Negroes to be the same in the…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 36 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 32 made in Africa by British subjects; which having been in pursuance of the encouragement and sanction expressed in our statute law, authorizing the buying of Negroes there by contract with the…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 37 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 33 unmeaning, and repugnant in themselves; absurd in every view, and highly iniquitous with respect to the Planter purchasor. Our statute law then, having in such variety of examples declared Negroes to…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 38 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 34 SECT. IV. IT has been asserted, “that as soon as a “Negroe slave comes into England , he becomes “ free ; and that, if the Legislature had “ever intended to…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772
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Image 39 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 35 construction of our English law, is not properly under the King's protection, ( ad fidem regis ) so as to have the full benefit of the laws of England , until…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
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Image 40 of Candid reflections upon the judgement lately awarded by the Court of King's Bench … 36 a little the rust of age, that the tenor and purport of it shall be solemnly adjudged, in some grave Law-court, to make Guiney Negroes, Ægyptians, Hottentots , and Samoeides ,…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Edward
- Date: 1772