The Proceedings at the sessions of the peace, and oyer and terminer, for the City of London, and county of Middlesex; on ...
Great Britain.Sessions (City of London and County of Middlesex)
London [England] : printed by William Pearson, in Aldersgate-street, and sold by James Roberts at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane,
[1726]-1742.
Title page includes name of current Lord Mayor.
Imprint from colophon until Dec. 1729, then from title page; price follows imprint.
Early imprints undated; year of publication from date of issue. Early issues dated according to Lady Day dating.
Imprints vary; from Dec. 1726 imprints read in part: "printed by J. Read, for J. Roberts"; from Dec. 1729 title page imprint reads in part: "printed for T. Payne"; title page imprint dated in roman, followed by price in brackets.
Printers' and booksellers' names change frequently during the 1730s and 1740s; from 1731-1732: "printed for J. Roberts"; in 1733-1734: "printed for J. Wilford"; from 1734-1737, J. Roberts again; from 1737-1740, 1742: "printed for T[homas]. Cooper"; in 1741: "printed and sold by J. Roberts"; some issues in 1742: "Printed and sold by T. Payne".
Printed in two columns; issues have individual pagination through 1730, consecutive pagination thereafter.
Format changes with Dec. 1729 to large quarto, with title page added to each issue and title repeated as caption on first page of text. Some sessions published in two or three parts.
Some numbers include advertisements illustrated with small cuts; from Dec. 1729 issues include one to three p. of booksellers' advertisements.
Issues include names of the Lord Mayor for that year, the chief justices of the court, and the jurors for both London and Middlesex; names of the accused are given in black letter; sentences are summarised at end of each issue.
NCBEL,
ESTC
Issues for 1726-1729 unnumbered; chronological designation only.
Numbering begins with No. 1 "for the said year" in Dec. 1729.
Sessions are numbered 1-8 each year; sessions lack volume or series designations.
Numbering irregular; some issues have chronological designation only.
In some years the regnal year is given as part of the designation, the calendar year omitted.
The "year" of publication runs from December to the following October.
With annual name index in collected volumes from 1731.
"The Trial of James Annesley and Joseph Redding" was issued with the "Proceedings" for July 17, 1742; also published separately.
Crime
Courts
Trials
Criminal justice, Administration of
England Middlesex.
England London.
Microfilm. Brighton, England. : Harvester Microfilm Publications. 1984.
Proceedings on the King's commission of the peace
Proceedings on the King's commissions of the peace, and oyer and terminer