The trial of Humphry Finnimore, Esq., (reputed to be worth forty thousand pounds)who as tried at the Quarter Session holden for the county of Surrey in the Town-Hall, Southwark on Thursday the 14th day of January, 1779 and convicted of felony in stealing of five turkies, the property of Thomas Humphries with the pleading of the counsel and the speeches of the justices on the 14th and 15th of January, when the prisoner's counsel moved the court to respite the sentence and a copy of the petition presented to His Majesty signed by the fifteen magistrates who were present at the trial : with an address to the person pardoned and another to the reader : the purchasers of this trial will be able to decide for themselves in a cause where the justices and the jury were of different opinions
Printed for B. White and J. Sewel1779-01-01
