 June no prosecution suit or proceeding shall be commenced or carried on against any person or persons for witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment, or conjuration, or for charging another with any such offence, in any court whatsoever in Great Britain.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1951865Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Walter Williams - 1808 - 906 pages
...in the third und fourth divisions of the general Title FELONY. FORTUNE-TELLER'S. ljY9 Geo. 2. c. 5, No prosecution, suit, or proceeding, shall be commenced or carried on against any person for witchcraft, sorcery, inchantment, or conjuration, or lor chaigiug anolher with any such offence,... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 458 pages
...the wisdom and goodness of our government, for repealing the statute aforesaid, and " enacting, that no prosecution, suit, or proceeding shall be commenced,...against any person or persons for witchcraft, sorcery, inchantment, or conjuration, in any court whatsoever in Great Britainc." This is a statute as much... | |
 | Thomas Potts - 1815 - 836 pages
...produced many pernicious effects, U was wisely repealed by the 9 Geo. 2. c. 5. wherein it is enacted, that no prosecution, suit or proceeding shall be commenced, or carried on, against any person for witchcraft, sorcery, inchantment, or conjuration, or for charging another with any such offence,... | |
 | 1865 - 808 pages
...indulging in familiar intercourse with the dregs and offscourings of society. So, by chapter fifth of 9th George II. it was enacted, that thereafter " no prosecution,...put an end to the atrocities of the faggot and the tarbarrel ; but it neither gave nor was intended to give full licence and immunity to the professors... | |
 | Harold Nuttall Tomlins - 1819 - 726 pages
...Witchcrafts), and then by craft> *"• s. 1. enacts, that from and after the 24th June then next, no Suit or Proceeding shall be commenced or carried on...Offence in any Court whatsoever in Great Britain. And for the more effectual preventing and punishing any Pre- The punishment tences to such Arts or... | |
 | Esq. James Watson - 1828 - 464 pages
...as used these arts. But the statute 9. of Geo. II. cap. 5, repeals the former, and declares, " That no prosecution, suit, or " proceeding shall be commenced...against " any person or persons for witchcraft, sorcery, in" chantment, or conjuration, or for charging another " with any such offence in any court whatsoever... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1841 - 672 pages
...carried on against any person for witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment, or conjuration, or for chaTging another with any such offence, in any court whatsoever in Great Britain — but that any person, pretending to exercise witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods,... | |
 | 1851 - 902 pages
...George II., our statutebook was purged of one of its darkest blots, by the following enactment — 'No suit or proceeding shall be commenced or carried on against any person for witchcraft or enchantment, or for charging another with such an offence, in any court whatever.'... | |
 | Member of the New York Bar - 1852 - 738 pages
...proceeding, shall be carried on " against any person for witehcraft, sorcery, inchantment, or conjura" tion, or for charging another with any such offence, in any court " whatsoever in Great Britain -- but that any person, pretending to " exercise witeheraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1859 - 312 pages
...statute 9 Geo. II. c. 5,* that no prosecution shall for the future be carried on against any person for witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment, or conjuration ; or for charging another with any such offence. But by the same statute persons pretending to use witchcraft, tell fortunes, or discover stolen goods,... | |
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