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Middlesex county records
… observes, "When a criminal is arraigned, he either stands mute or confesses the fact; which circumstances we may call … him. ( b.) The other Incident to Arraignment" Standing Mute."To the other and rare incident of arraignment, i.e. the … corruption of blood and escheat of lands by standing mute, the hideous torture did not exempt him from forfeiture …
Middlesex county records
… that torture was thus applied in James the First's time to mute culprits, for the mere purpose of forcing them to speak. … pen' fort' et dure" = dead to these because he stood mute to a former indictment and had judgment of the peine … or acquitted of capital felonies, for having stood mute on arraignment, or for being described in the bills as …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… 11. 2125. Dr. Man to Cecil. 1. Because he cannot by his mute letters comprehend all the particularities passed since …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… sent by Killegrew's man, the 4th inst., he must have been mute. He said it was necessary that Calais should be …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… ear to whatsoever we propound, nor answer at all but with mute and dumb silence. And, therefore, if his holiness would …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… Queen]. In olden time the son of a King of Persia, born mute, found his voice when he saw the edge of a sword …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… that we must either enter into the principal or stand mute. We could spend time in expostulations of former things …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… and heiress of Isabella, daughter of the same, a deaf mute ( surde et mute existentis) in the charge of Simon de Iswode by order of … ii. Custodia Is' fil' et h'edis Ade de Grantham surde et mute. Wednesday after the Feast of the Conception B. M. [8 …
County of Middlesex. Calendar to the sessions records: new series
… see Muscett. Mustian (Mustyan), William, 67, 211, 397 Mute, Standing, see Peine forte et dure. Myerne, see Mierne. …