| Hugh Thomas - 1997 - 916 pages
...deemed guilty of "felony, piracy and robbery, and should suffer death without benefit of clergy and loss of lands, goods and chattels as pirates, felons and robbers upon the seas ought to suffer." Strong language, it might be said, for a commerce which until eighteen years before... | |
| Edward Hyde East - 2004 - 1196 pages
...being convi&ed there" of according to the dire£lions of this a£t, fhall fuffer « death and lofs of lands, goods, and chattels as pirates,, « felons, and robbers upon the feas ought to fuffer." A«reward is given to the difcoverer of any combination for running away with... | |
| 1824 - 516 pages
...felony, and robbery; and, being convicted thereof, shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy, and loss of lands, goods, and chattels, as pirates, felons, and robbers, upon the seas, ought to suffer. • II. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That nothing... | |
| Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1843 - 1014 pages
...Felony, and Robbery, and being convicted thereof, shall suffer Death without Benefit of Clergy, and Loss of Lands, Goods, and Chattels, as Pirates, Felons, and Robbers upon the Seas ought to suffer. II. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That nothing in... | |
| 1881 - 952 pages
...felony, and robbery, and being convicted thereof snail suffer death without benefit of clergy, and loss of lands, goods, and chattels, as pirates, felons, and robbers upon the seas ought to suffer. The Slave Trade Act 1873 (36 1; 37 Viet. c. 8S).—Sei»wrf of Slave Ships — Visitation... | |
| 1841 - 656 pages
...felony, and robbery, and being convicted thereof shall suffer death without benefit of clergy, and loss of lands, goods, and chattels, as pirates, felons, and robbers upon the seas ought to suffer. X. And be it further enacted, that (except in such special cases as are in and by... | |
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