A narrative of the remarkable affair between Mr. Simonds, the Polish Jew merchant, and Mr. James Ashley, merchant of Bread-Street, London
Subtitle: wherein the robbery at Cransford-Bridge, the several trials at the Old-Bailey, King's Bench, and Chelmsford, are particularly set forth : and an impartial enquiry made into the truth of the several facts sworn on both sides, and the whole of this intricate business set in a clear and unprejudiced light : interspersed with remarks on the probability of facts not yet discovered, and the nature and consequence of perjury.
Contributors: Great Britain. Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery (London and Middlesex); Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.; Great Britain. Assizes (Essex, England)
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Clay ... and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster
Published: 1752
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Simons, Henry, -- Polish Jew -- Trials, litigation, etc; Ashley, James -- Trials, litigation, etc; Goddard, Joseph, -- fl. 1751; Trials (Perjury) -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Trials (Assault) -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800; Trials (Robbery) -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: The trials referred to are: the trial at the Old Bailey, at the September sessions 1751, of Joseph Goddard for robbery of Henry Simons; the trial of Simons in the Court of King's Bench for perjury; and the trial of Simons at the Chelmsford assizes, July 12, 1752, at the prosecution of James Ashley, for assault, for allegedly putting three ducats into Ashley's pocket with intent to charge him with robbery.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-G⁴.

LC copy imperfect: p. i-ii (half title) and p. 47-48 wanting; p. 39-40 mutilated.

ESTC T39597