The trial (at large) of James Hill; otherwise James Hind; otherwise, James Actzen: for feloniously, wilfully, and maliciously, setting fire to the rope-house, in His Majesty's dock-yard at Portsmouth. Tried at the Assize, at Winchester, on Thursday, March 6, 1777. Before the honorable Sir William Henry Ashhurst, knt. ... and Sir Beaumont Hotham, knt. ...
By: Taken in short-hand ... by Joseph Gurney. And published by permission of the judges
Contributors: Gurney, Joseph, 1744-1815, reporter; Ashurst, William Henry, Sir, 1725-1807; Hotham, Beaumont; Great Britain. Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery
Publisher: [Sold by G. Kearsley and Martha Gurney]
Published: 1777
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Notes: Trial of James Aitken for an attempt to burn the naval stores and shipping at Portsmouth, in the interest of the American revolutionists.

Adams, 77-8.

ESTC T88542.

Copy 1 Note: T.p. and last leaf wanting. Bound with: Coke, A., and Woodburne, J. The tryal and condemnation of Arundel Coke ... and of John Woodburne. 1722.